Bolton History Centre

Location: 

Bolton Library & Museum Services
Le Mans Cresent
Bolton
BL1 1SE
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collection name: Bolton Oral History Tapes; Subjects: Oral History: Oral History Interviews on subjects including:. Childhood/Homelife/Time with the National Front/Weaving at Tootals/Career at Edboros/Reason for becoming a socialist/Local and Parlimentary politics/WW2/Women/Munitions/Labour Party/1944/Trade Unions/Mining family/Depression/Poverty/Textiles/Work life in the mill/Work life in the Hippodrome/Leisure/Work in the mine/Holidays in Blackpool/Merryweather's fire brigade/Education/Engineering/Bolton Civic Trust/Daughter of a spinner/Street life/Textiles at Irwell Bank Mill and Dyson's Mill/Socialist Education/Zeppelin raid/General strikes/Socialist party in Bolton/Elections/Sister was first woman Mayor of Bolton/Nursery education/Conscientious objectors/Career as carer/Work for 'cripples help society'/Youth work/Career as engineer (technical details)/Poverty in lower classes/Destruction of house to build Le Mans Cresent/Occupation as chemical engineer/Work at De Havilland; items: 171 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Miscellaneous Tapes; Subjects: :; items: 180 Compact Cassette. Collection name: North West Sound Archive Tapes; Subjects: :; items: 127 Compact Cassette,
Contacts

Telephone: 

01204 332194

Contact name 1: 

Julie Lamara

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