In this one hour and seventeen minute long interview, Joyce gives an informative account of what life was like in Cartmel during her childhood which coincided with the WW1.

Joyce Penelope Juliana Smith was born on Walney Island in 1909 and came to Cartmel in 1910 when her vicar father came to the Priory.

Joyce recalls structural changes to the Priory church,  division between the ‘gentry’ and the village people to the point where she was discouraged from playing with the village children and talks about trades people, shops at that time and the topics of crime, health, fuel and lighting and entertainment and leisure.