Barking & Dagenham Archives & Local Studies Centre

Location: 

Valence House Museum
Becontree Avenue
Dagenham
RM8 3HT
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collection name: Memory Games; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises oral history interviews collected by Eastside Community Heritage for the Memory Games Oral History Project. The people interviewed as part of this project include sporting talents in Barking and Dagenham, including Olympic hopefuls to Paralympic Gold medallists, such as Beverley Gull; items: 1 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Working Lives; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises 47 oral history interviews collected by Eastside Community Heritage for the Working Lives of the Thames Gateway Project in 2008. The people that were interviewed as part of the project experienced different working environments, such as chemical, energy, food and drink, transport, engineering, printing, markets and textiles, along to Thames Gateway from the mid 1930s to the end of the 1980s; items: 1 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Creekmouth Heritage; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises oral history interviews with residents of Creekmouth and the area around Thames View, undertaken by Barker Langham as part of the Creekmouth Heritage Project in 2013; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Stories of Becontree; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises a series of seven oral histories interviews, recording the lives and experiences of residents of the Becontree Estate, undertaken by young people involved in the Stories of Becontree Project led by Catch22 in 2013; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Barking Park; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises 18 oral history interviews undertaken by Eastside Community Heritage for the Barking Park Oral History Project in 2011. The people interviewed as part of this project remember the opening of the park, the vast amenities that appealed to a wide variety of interests from tennis and bowls to a bandstand for musical events, the construction of a Lido and the Miniature Railway and how the park was used to house anti-aircraft batteries during the Second World War; items: 1 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Second World War; Subjects: Oral History: This collection includes 11 oral history interviews concerning military service, civil defence, air-raids, bomb damage, evacuation and rationing experience by people in Barking and Dagenham during the Second World War.; items: 1 MiniDisc, 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Veterans; Subjects: Oral History: This collection includes five oral history interviews with veterans of the Second World War; items: 1 MiniDisc, 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Refugees; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises seven oral history interviews, recording the experiences of members of Harmony House, who came to the United Kingdom from The Congo and Sudan in the 1960s and 1970s; items: 1 MiniDisc, 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Dagenham Girl Pipers; Subjects: Oral History: This collections includes four oral history interviews with members of the Dagenham Girl Pipers undertaken by staff at Barking and Dagenham Archives and Local Studies Centre; items: 1 MiniDisc, 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Barking Pageant; Subjects: Oral History: This collection includes two oral history interviews on the Barking Pageant of 1931; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: First World War; Subjects: Oral History: This collection comprises three oral history interviews collected as part for the First World War Centenary.; items: 1 MiniDisc,
Contacts

Telephone: 

020 8227 5221

Contact name 1: 

Clare Sexton

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