My grandfather by Sergio Valverde.

INTERVIEW

1.- How old are you?..... Then, when were you born?

I am 81 years old, so I was born in 1933.

2.- Where did you spend your childhood?

I spent my childhood here, in La Unión.

3.- How many brothers and sisters have you got?

In my family we were six people, my brothers, my sister, my parents and me.

4.- What did your parents do? What was their job?

My father was miner and my mother didn´t work, she did the housework.

5.- What did you play in that period?

In that period we played marbles and we also played skipping.

6.- How old were you when you left school?

I was fourteen years old.

7.- How was the school at that time? Did you have books, notebooks, etc?

We only had got a pencil, a rubber and a notebook…

8.- When did you start working? What was your job?

At the age of 15, I helped  my father in the mine and with the goats.

9.-  What can you remember about the Spanish Civil war?

The church was invaded by the communists.

10.- And about the Post-War period?

A lot of hunger…

11.- What did you dream of at those hard times?

To live in peace.

12.- What did you expect from the future?

I remember I wanted those hard times to go by because it could not be worse, so things would improve.

13.- Did you have the opportunity to travel?

Yes, I travelled to Portugal, France and other Spanish cities.

14.- When did you meet your wife?

In 1952.

15.- How long were you engaged?

Six years.

16.- What was your wife´s job?

Working at home, like every woman in that period.

17.- How was the relationships with your neighbours?

Very good, better than now.

18.- What are the bests memories of that time? And the worst? Did you remember a specially moment that you personally lived?

Seventy years. The Civil-War.

19.- What are the differences between young people then and nowadays?

Then young people were much more polite!