Harold Catherwood Interview – Burning Buildings
Produced by Revelstoke Museum and Archives. Filmed by Agathe Bernard.
Harold Catherwood, former resident of Sidmouth, discusses his family burning their buildings.
Title Screen: Circular logo on a black backdrop. Logo is an image of four waves turning into wheat on the left end. The title “Stories Beneath the Surface” is circled around the image in capital letters.
Interview with Harold Catherwood. Harold Catherwood is a white man with short grey hair. He is wearing a printed collared shirt and a black vest. He is sitting on a light brown armchair in a room with black and white clock on a white wall.
Revelstoke Museum and Archives logo in the bottom right hand corner.
Transcript of Narration:
And we got very little assist, uh assistance from Revelstoke.
Whenever they would, we would talk about it, they would say “well you can’t stop progress”.
Well, perhaps not. They didn’t want to stop progress.
They brought in a demolition crew, which was the people that were to burn the property and clean up the properties.
In our case, when they came along, I said “that isn’t going to happen here”. I said “we put these builds, my dad put these buildings here, and my dad will take them away”.
I said “don’t you come anywhere near this property”, and they didn’t.
My dad came up from, he at that time had moved to Creston, and so when they came up and my brother also was-was came and the three of us stood there and watched our build, those buildings burn.
It wasn’t nice.
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