Cheshire Archives & Local Studies

Location: 

Cheshire Record Office
Duke Street
Chester
CH1 1RL
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collection name: Eric Johnson Interview; Subjects: Oral History: Life in Saltney from WW1 onwards, subjects include: school, employment; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Wartime Recollections; Subjects: Oral History: Memories of WW2 in Chester by Mrs Elloy and Miss Reilly, recorded Jun 1990; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Interview with Arthur Howard, Chester boat builder; Subjects: Oral History: Memories of a boat builder at Taylor's Boatyard, recorded c.1982; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Winnington Park Recreation Club, Northwich Oral History Records; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews collected as part of a PhD project of Royal Holloway University of London; items: 13 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Reminiscence sessions during Age Resource Week; Subjects: Oral History: Entertainment; Hatches, Matches and Dispatches, recorded 1993; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Women's Land Army and Cheshire Timber Corps Oral Histories; Subjects: Oral History: Recordings of oral histories, with some supporting materials, gathered in the course of 2009 from former veterans of the Women's Land Army and Cheshire Timber Corps; items: 28 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: 'My Story - Our History' - Northwich Oral History Project 2008; Subjects: Oral History: Oral histories and transcripts gathered jointly by Cheshire County Council and WRVS; items: 30 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: D A Ellis Interview; Subjects: Oral History: Memories of Mr Ellis about his days as a projectionist at the Music Hall and Gaumont Cinema in the 1940s, recorded 1997; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Blacon Townswomen's Guild; Subjects: Oral History: Blacon old and new, recorded 1970; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Edward A Davies Interview; Subjects: Oral History: Life in Chester. Mr Davies was born in 1910; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Memories of Nursing at Deva Hospital; Subjects: Oral History: Memories of Mr Pritchard, former nurse 1911-1930 by Dr Middlefell and his wife, c.1970; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Blacon Past and Present; Subjects: Oral History: Memories of Blacon by residents group, recorded winter 1989/90; items: 5 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Barrow History Group Oral History Tapes; Subjects: Oral History: Life in the village of Barrow in first half of the 20th century. Recorded 1986?; items: 6 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Chester Archaeological Society Oral History Project; Subjects: Oral History: Record various aspects of life in Chester and area, 1984-1986; items: 248 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Secrets of Eternal Youth: The Grosvenor Park Oral History Project 2010; Subjects: Oral History: Oral histories gathered intergenerationally focussing on Grosvenor Park, Chester and its immediate locale; items: 13 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Recollections of Chester; Subjects: Oral History: Recollections of JT Evans of 36 Henley Rd Lache, 1968; items: 1 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Personal Recollections; Subjects: Oral History: Recollections of Robert Langley, bookseller, 31 Christleton Rd, 1969; items: 1 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Forgotten Front Remembered; Subjects: Oral History; Speeches & Events: Memories of Chester during WW2, Oct 1990; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: New World Domestic Appliances Ltd; Subjects: Popular Music & Jazz: Recording made in 1982 of the song 'Trust the Regulo' (vocal foxtrot) sung by Sylvia Welling with the Gainsborough Orchestra. Composers: Louis Levy and R H Kemp from the Radiation film 'What the Chef Saw'; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Fodens Ltd of Elworth, Commercial Vehicle Manufacturers; Subjects: Popular Music & Jazz: Foden's Motor Works Band recordings includes 1930 78rpm gramophone record of the Foden Motor Works Band, soloist Hary Mortimer playing 'Alpine Echos' and 'Cleopatra'. Edison Bell record no. 4981; items: 1 Shellac Disc, Lacquer Disc,3 Vinyl Disc. Collection name: Cheshire County Council; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Council and committee meetings, 1981-1982; items: 32 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Beating the Bounds; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Ceremony led by the Mayor of Chester, Alderman CN Ribbeck, October 1972; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Speech on Chester; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Councillor John Crawford's speech made to the Conference of the Library Association at Chester College, April 1985; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Mostyn House School; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Choir and bells of Mostyn House School 'Loyal Devoir', 1982. Philip Benbow on the organ and Simon Earl on the World War One memorial carillon; items: Lacquer Disc,1 Vinyl Disc,
Contacts

Telephone: 

01244 972560

Contact name 1: 

Lisa Greenhalgh

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