Bristol Record Office

Location: 

B Bond Warehouse
Smeaton Road
Bristol
BS1 6XN
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collections: `What can and what cannot be measured in the education we provide' by Sir. Alec Clegg. (The Saint Matthias Day lecture). Subjects: Religion: 1975 cassette; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Arts Opportunity Theatre. Subjects: Speeches & Events: reel to reel recordings of events; items: 5 Open Reel Tape; BBC presentation by Elsie Otley narrating the visit to Bristol by train by The Queen and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to open the new Engineering Department at Bristol University. Subjects: Documentary & News: reel to reel and CDR; items: 1 Open Reel Tape, 1 Audio CD-R; BBC Radio Bristol Tapes. Subjects: Radio: Over 400 Reel-to-reel audio tapes containing pre-recorded material for Radio Bristol programmes; items: 400 Open Reel Tape; Black Pyramid Project. Subjects: Oral History: Project files including audio tapes of recordings (DAT); items: 14 Compact Cassette, 10 DAT; Bristol & District Co-Operative Society. Subjects: Documentary & News: Audio cassettes of documentaries on work; items: 5 Compact Cassette; Bristol Bach Choir. Subjects: Classical Music: Recordings of Bristol Bach Choir, 1980s; items: 8 Compact Cassette; Bristol Channel jingles. Subjects: Documentary & News: 1973 local cable TV channel. reel to reel and cassette copies; items: 1 Open Reel Tape, 1 Compact Cassette; Bristol Community Housing Foundation project: Capturing Memories - Building for the Future. Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings (8xCDR); items: 8 Audio CD-R; Bristol Rugby Football Club. Subjects: Speeches & Events: Centenary dinner speeches. 1988; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Bristol South Methodist Church Circuit. Subjects: Religion, Speeches & Events: Audio reel of Rev Arthur Howell's farewell speech plus handwritten script. Also 3 12 inch gramophone records of interviews and selections from church bazaar 1951; items: 3 Vinyl Disc, 1 Open Reel Tape; Bristol Twinning Association. Subjects: Oral History: Bristol-Hannover & Bristol-Bordeaux twinning oral history recordings; items: 3 Audio CD-R; Cassette tape recordings of events in Bristol. Subjects: Speeches & Events; Classical Music: Bedminster Writers' Workshop, Colston Hall, Bristol Cathedral Choir, College of St Matthias Infant School, Filton Male Voice Choir, USA Methodist Youth Chorale, 1988-1992; items: 6 Compact Cassette; Christmas Carols from St Stephen's Church. Subjects: Religion: Carol service; items: 1 Vinyl Disc; CORE conferences and workshops. Subjects: Environmentalism: Cassette tape recordings 1987-1995; items: 22 Compact Cassette; Dave Collett Blues. Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: (pianist for Acker Bilk band); items: 1 Compact Cassette; Diocese of Bristol: Church Union. Subjects: Speeches & Events: Christian Union lectures; items: 13 Audio CD-R; Easton Heritage Archive. Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings; items: 5 Compact Cassette; Ethel Thomas collection. Subjects: Drama & Literature: Across the bridge, A cross the bridge' by Evelyn Angel; Sounds of Bristol, A portrait of Bristol in sounds, dialect & song; Isambard Kingdom Brunel and other comical sagas from our area with Old Pete & John Christie. Also 2 unidentified 8mm tapes; items: 5 Vinyl Disc, ; Fem FM. Subjects: Radio: Britain's first all female radio station. MP3s & WAVs from VHS recordings; items: published CD, 1 VHS audio; Fred Wedlock collection. Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: Noel Edmonds Songs' - 3 songs by Fred Wedlock performed on Noel Edmonds radio show, 1981; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Hengrove School History Project. Subjects: Drama & Literature: 'Hengrove School presents The Venturers by Harold Chase and Stephen Davies'; items: 2 Vinyl Disc, ; Horfield Baptist Church. Subjects: Religion: 1Audio cassette tapes of church services, 1980s-90s; items: 47 Compact Cassette; Horfield Baptist Church. Subjects: Religion: Audio cassette tapes of services, 1980s-1990; items: 36 Compact Cassette; JS Fry & Sons. Subjects: Speeches & Events: Retirement speech of Sir Egbert Cadbury, 1963; items: 2 Open Reel Tape; Oral History Collection. Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recording - cassette with mp3 and wav copies; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Peter MacDonald collection. Subjects: Drama & Literature: Corners of my Mind by Peter Macdonald, audio tapes read by James Bryce; items: 3 Compact Cassette; Society of Friends (Quakers). Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings; items: 3 Compact Cassette, 4 MiniDisc; Speech Therapy recordings. Subjects: Language & Dialect: Gramophone records of recordings made between 1948 and 1950 in Bristol at a speech therapy clinic of patients who had undergone cleft palate surgery undertaking remedial speech therapy. One of the recordings is of Sir Hector Livingston Duff. The studio, Bristol and West Recording Services, was based at 6 Park Row, Bristol. items: 11 Shellac Disc, 1 Digital Audio Files; St Claire Family collection. Subjects: Oral History: Cassette tape recording of Reuben and Cleophus St Claire; items: 1 Compact Cassette; St Pauls Carnival. Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: CDs and audio cassettes of performers; items: 10 Compact Cassette, 10 Audio CD-R; St. Annes Board Mill oral interviews. Subjects: Oral History: Fifteen C90 cassette tapes of interviews as part of thesis on industrial relations; items: 15 Compact Cassette; Tape of broadcasts from the Colston Hall 1940-1967. Subjects: Classical Music: Opening of Colston Hall, 1951; BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1940; Simon Preston, organ, 1967; BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1940; BBC Symphony Orchestra, 1964; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Tape of the Valedictory Service, Bristol CathedralSubjects: Religion: 1978 cassette; items: 1 Compact Cassette; Tape recordings of "The Story of the Colston Hall". Subjects: Drama & Literature; Radio: Written by Eric Hancock for BBC Radio Bristol, and presented to the Arts and Leisure Committee and thence to the Lord Mayor of Bristol. items: 6 Open Reel Tape; Temple Local History Group. Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings; items: 24 Compact Cassette; The Rubbish Revolution Media Campaign: Radio Broadcasts:. Subjects: Documentary & News: 1999 audio cassettes; items: 2 Compact Cassette; WD&HO Wills collection. Subjects: Speeches & Events: Conference proceeding recordings (audio reels); items: 2 Open Reel Tape
Contacts

Contact name 1: 

Julian Warren

Email 1: