Collection name: Family Wire Recording Archive; Subjects: Oral History, Popular Music & Jazz, Language & Dialect: Recordings recovered from around 20 wire spools recorded by my Grandfather in London on a homemade wire recorder, dating from about 1949. Mostly family members and family friends, singing, playing instruments, and some talking. Also contains a lot of music and some speech recorded from the radio and some records.; items: Steel wire, on homemade aluminium spools