Transcript by Caroline Ogden
Bill Ogden on first visit and beach huts interview by Audrey Fitzjohn in 1989 – transcript of the audio tape
William Edward (Billy or Bill) Ogden, MC, 1897-1990
B – We and the Wallers had a hut, a bathing hut, just purely a bathing hut which we use to share with them
A – Where was that hut?
B – That was right at the foot of the cliff steps, the very first one; I wonder whose hut it is now?
A – George Turner
B – George Turner, yes that right, that was the Waller’s, and they kindly gave us the run of it and we used it for bathing purposes and nothing else – that was all they were used for – and then just after the end of the 1st World War my mother and the Stollery family both rented land from the Wallers and put up huts in about 1923
A – That was when the Stollery’s was put up
B – Yes, they put up a much more elaborate one that we did. Our original hut was little more than a bathing hut similar to the Wallers, but then as the children grew up and they got boats, sailing and so on, we extended it and of course we had our choice of space, and then gradually other huts followed suit, and then we had a regular little settlement there.
