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D8048 - 'Buxton's Present from the Past': Oral History Archive - Nov 2015-Apr 2021
- 2 - Interviews carried out by members of the Buxton U3A Oral History Group - Nov 2015-Oct 2019

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8048/2/35
Title	Oral history interview with Barbara Sutton and Sara Griffiths discussing the Buxton Amateur Dramatic Operatic Society (BADOS)
Date	28 Nov 2024
Description	Interviewed by Anne Rogerson, Buxton and District U3A Oral History Group Also including digital copies of photographs discussed during the interview. The summary gives the photograph reference numbers.
Extent	35 files (0.46 GB)
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	'Buxton's Present from the Past': Oral History Archive
Archive Creator	Buxton and District U3A Oral History Group
Administrative History	Sara Griffiths is the daughter of Barbara Sutton.
Access Category	OPEN
Access Conditions	These digital records can be viewed on the public computers at the record office in the Digital Repository, Born-Digital Archives folder.
Format	Digital
Dimensions	Interview length: 33 minutes 6 seconds
Term	Oral history
	Sound recordings
	Amateur theatre
	Drama
	Operatic societies
	Opera
Transcript or Index	Interview Summary, prepared by Anne Rogerson, Buxton and District U3A Oral History Group 00.00 Introductions 00.45 The start of involvement with BADOS 01.30 Background as to why Barbara left school at 15 and why she joined BADOS 02.00 The first audition 02.30 First mention of Ted Sutton (Barbara’s husband) and Hilda Howe 03.10 How Barbara and Ted met after WWII at the Post Office in Buxton and then went together to BADOS 04.28 Marriage (later confirmed as 1949 – see entry at 18.30) Background on Ted’s life 05.56 Prompt from Sara about the story of the screen at the Post Office 06.45 Parts played by Barbara- reference to books of photos 07.17 Performance venues The Opera House for musicals and the numbers of performances in a run 08.32 Costumes 09.02 Dancing in the chorus 09.30 A producer/actor possibly named Whitehead? 10.08 The Playhouse – mainly used for producing plays 12.08 Roles remembered- Barbara loved them all 12.28 An amusing story about a song called “Drop me a line” from the production “Out of the hat” 13.37 Prompt from Sara for Barbara to tell the story of the curtain coming down with Barbara in the wrong place on stage 14.43 Barbara concerned that details are accurate 15.20 Prompt from Sara about rehearsals at The Eagle Hotel (on the Market Place) Going for a drink afterwards and barley wine 17.40 Reflection on the pleasure of being in a play and adopting another persona 18.00 Rehearsing together with Ted 18.30 Length of marriage to Ted 19.23 Children and grandchildren following the tradition of singing and acting 19.50 Barbara acting in a play produced by the family on Zoom during Covid (Barbara would then have been in her mid 90s) Pictures shared showing her as Lady Bracknell on Zoom 21.24 Moved out of Buxton and the last drama group involved in was at Woodley near Reading 22.30 Being shown photos of the Covid Zoom production, with commentary 23.15 Cousins involvement as dancers in BADOS 24.12 Sara tells story of Barbara being late for rehearsal and how her father managed to get her there on time- using an unorthodox approach to finding transport for Barbara and her costumes 25.10 Cuttings information from a scrapbook A review of “A quiet weekend” Wednesday to Saturday at The Playhouse (unfortunately no actual date) Sara read the review of the production which gave special mention to Barbara 27.03 A production at The Spa Hotel (Now demolished, but information about it exists in the Present from the Past archive) 28.30 Barbara’s reaction to hearing the review read over 70 years after it was written 29.21 More about costumes 30.15 Wedding photo cutting discussed 30.48 What happened after starting a family? Barbara had to leave BADOS to look after the children (eight in all) so no time for her to be in BADOS. She continued to help Ted with learning his lines at home for BADOS until they left Buxton for Oldham in 1964 32.29 Thanks and conclusion 33.06 End of recording

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