Recorded interview, at the site

— Julian Mercer, eleventh of March, nineteen eighty-nine, recording on the cleared ground. Mrs. Bardsley has agreed to be recorded and has agreed that the tape may be kept. Is that right, Mrs. Bardsley?

— [Second voice, on the tape: That's right. You can keep it.]

— Thank you. You looked after this ground for how long?

— [Second voice: Forty-one years. My husband before that, and his father, though not so regular.]

— And you cut the grass and kept the paths, and you knew the rows.

— [Second voice: I knew the rows the way you know a street. You don't count the houses. You'd notice if one went.]

— I want to ask you about Row 7, and I want to be careful how I ask it, because I don't want to put an answer in your mouth. How many were in Row 7?

— [Second voice: Twelve.]

— You're sure of the number.

— [Second voice: I'm sure of the number because of the mowing. Eleven you do in one pass and you're back for your tea. Twelve and you go round again. I went round again for forty-one years.]

— My lifting log says eleven, and I was standing here when they came up.

— [Second voice: Then you'd best ask what happened to the other one, hadn't you. I'm not saying anything happened to it. I'm saying I went round again.]

— That's fair. I'm not going to argue with you and I'm not going to write down that you were mistaken, because I have a plan of my own that says twelve and a log of my own that says eleven, and it isn't my place to correct a person with a better memory than my paperwork.

— [Second voice: You're the first one that's put it that way.]

— Last question, and then I'll let you get out of this wind. Was there ever anything about this ground that people remarked on?

— [Second voice: No. It was a quiet place. That's what I'd want said. People are always after a story and there wasn't one. It was a quiet place and now it's a car park.]

— Thank you. That's the end of the interview.