Collection name: Ilfracombe Museum Oral History Archive. Subjects: Oral History; Classical Music; Popular Music & Jazz; Language & Dialect: A collection of oral history recording made in 1985-6 under the Manpower Services Commission. Older resident of Ilfracombe recollect their childhood, work life, war experiences. Originals are on tape cassette, have been digitised in 2012Written transcripts of each recording have been made. In addition the museum has a small collection of cylinders for an Edison phonograph. Plus a small number of 78s ( shellac ) from the 1940s onwards, and a small number of vinyl records. items: 15 cylinder, 20 Shellac Disc, 20 Vinyl Disc, 50 Compact Cassette