Stephen Fry Learns More About His Grandfather's Career

Stephen Fry Learns More About His Grandfather's Career - Who Do You Think You Are?

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10 жыл бұрын

In Britain in the 1920's there was a campain in Britain to support homegrown sugar beet. The are around Bury St Edmunds provided perfect growing conditions. So when a new factory was built in 1925, Martin and his colleague were invited to help set it up. Stephen is off to visit a local farmer to find out more about the sugar trade.
Stephen Fry seems as English as tweed, silver toast racks and the London black cab he can be seen driving around the streets of the capital. However, Stephens ancestry is in fact of Jewish European descent.
The story that pricked Stephen's interest the most when researching his family was that of his beloved maternal grandfather, Martin Newman. Martin's actual name was Neumann. By the time of his death, when Stephen was just eleven years old, his flamboyance had made an indelible mark on his grandson.
Stephen hopes to discover more about Martin's life and what happened to the other branches of the Neumann family?
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@bazzatheblue 4 жыл бұрын

My father went to work at the factory in Bury and he always spoke about the Hungarian manager ,now it seems he was Frys grandfather.

@stephenbeacham9717 3 жыл бұрын

Always spoke of... Always? I’m a prol and I never speak of my industrial owner. What in heaven’s name did he say?

@bazzatheblue 3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenbeacham9717 well he didnt always say,i just remember him bringing him up every now and then if he was looking back to those times.The old man didnt know him personally as like you he was a working class prol.We're talking about the 1939s here i believe .

@jillybe1873 2 жыл бұрын

Lovely

@heidinein645 Жыл бұрын

I am so Glad that Martin came to britain.....

@archangel9191 4 жыл бұрын

That is just so funny and brilliant, that photo of Martin, Stephen's grandfather, in plus fours! Brilliant, he sounds like quite a character, you can definitely see why Stephen was close to his grandfather, if he wore that to work a lot, perhaps or not every day back then, who knows.

@pamostman516 4 жыл бұрын

Bury is a beautiful little town, it was one of my favorites when I toured East Anglia in 2004.

@michikomanalang6733 7 жыл бұрын

I love how enthused he is!

@thatchoirgirl94 Жыл бұрын

Having fields of sugar beets and factories to make refined sugar out of them is just an ordinary, unspectacular thing for me as a German. For years and years I used to pass a sugar beet field every day just outside my home town. The (once) biggest sugar producing factory in the world "SüdZucker" is just a 30 minutes' drive away.

@DayDreamBeliever1961 7 жыл бұрын

It looks like the bits where Stephen is tracing his father's family have been removed.

@chrispza 2 жыл бұрын

Alas, poor Yorisch (?sp?); I knew him well, Horatio ...

@pennychurchward1481 2 жыл бұрын

I have ancestors from Bury St Edmunds

@rosemaryclarke2348 Жыл бұрын

It probably sounds daft but I didn't know that England grew sugar beet!😂

@louchat333 3 жыл бұрын

Now Stephen knows where his brains came from.

@MrSam4850 7 жыл бұрын

The announcer needs to learn the difference between Bury and Bury St Edmunds...

@beth12svist 4 жыл бұрын

Well, the local man also calls it Bury, so it's probably safe to assume the locals don't mind. :D

@jillosler9353 Жыл бұрын

Locally it's called Bury.

@angeladawn805 6 ай бұрын

Thank the fates that Martin got offered that job, because, for sure, we wouldn't be blessed with SF, and the world would be a whole lot sadder

@stephenbeacham9717 3 жыл бұрын

The grandchild of an industrialist pokes fun at the factory workings that made him. I adore Fry. But as a blue working class prol, who history won’t remember, it’s delicious in irony.