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Northumberland Voices: Childhood in a country house Northumberland Voices
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Hetha Butler lived at Ewart Park, Northumberland from the age of one in c.1897 until 1937. She was the grand-daughter of the social reformer Josephine Butler.
In this podcast she describes her childhood at Ewart Park. She talks about the servants in the household and being brought up by a governess. Hetha was not very interested in academic learning and describes the other activities that she enjoyed as a child, including roller skating! She also recalls the parties and entertainments thrown by her family for the "estate folk".
Online exhibition about Josephine Butler:
https://northumberlandarchives.com/exhibitions/butler/1.html
Blogs about the St Paul and Butler families of Ewart Paul:
https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/2016/10/18/of-international-importance-the-st-paul-butler-families-of-ewart-park/
https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/2016/10/25/of-international-importance-the-st-paul-butler-families-of-ewart-park-part-two/
Hetha Butler lived at Ewart Park, Northumberland from the age of one in c.1897 until 1937. She was the grand-daughter of the social reformer Josephine Butler.
In this podcast she describes her childhood at Ewart Park. She talks about the servants in the household and being brought up by a governess. Hetha was not very interested in academic learning and describes the other activities that she enjoyed as a child, including roller skating! She also recalls the parties and entertainments thrown by her family for the "estate folk".
Online exhibition about Josephine Butler:
https://northumberlandarchives.com/exhibitions/butler/1.html
Blogs about the St Paul and Butler families of Ewart Paul:
https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/2016/10/18/of-international-importance-the-st-paul-butler-families-of-ewart-park/
https://www.northumberlandarchives.com/2016/10/25/of-international-importance-the-st-paul-butler-families-of-ewart-park-part-two/
10 min