Forge Mill Needle Museum

Location: 

Needle Mill Lane
Riverside
Redditch
B98 8HY
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Museum/Gallery

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Collection name: Childhood in Redditch; Subjects: Oral History: The interviews were undertaken for an exhibition about childhood in Redditch from the period of the first World war through to 1999. Local people were interviewed in ages ranging from 87 - to 12; items: 16 Compact Cassette, 57 Videos Interviews. Collection name: BBC Voices Project; Subjects: Oral History: A community project by the BBC Hereford and Worcester training local people to record people's memories of working and life in the old town of Redditch in the 1940s/50s; items: 12 MiniDisc. Collection name: Mike Johnson Interviews; Subjects: Oral History: Local historian Mike Johnson interviews notable elderly residents of Redditch; items: 10 Compact Cassette. Collection name: New Town, New Start; Subjects: Oral History: An ambitious and comprehensive project as it aimed to capture both the feelings, thoughts and impression of how local people felt about the New Town as well as people's experiences of moving to the Redditch New Town. We interviewed a wide cross section of people including development corporation officials, local association officials local retailers and firms that had moved to Redditch; items: 28 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Redditch Business Oral History Project 2002-3; Subjects: Oral History: This project was a collaboration between the Redditch and Bromsgrove Manufacturer's Association (RMA) and the Forge Mill Museum. The project was to record the wider spectrum of Redditch manufacturing. The RMA used its influence with members to source potential interviewees. The organisation's partner WEMTEC conducted interviews with senior industrialist as a first step to ensure that the town's industrial history wasn't lost; items: 24 Compact Cassette,
Contacts

Telephone: 

01527 62509

Contact name 1: 

Jo-Ann Gloger

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