Cumbria Archive & Local Studies Centre, Whitehaven

Location: 

Scotch Street
Whitehaven
CA28 7NL
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collection name: Lord Jack Adams of Ennerdale; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Biography of Lord Adams as broadcast by BBC Radio Cumbria; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Norman Nicholson, Poet; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Audio tape of BBC Radio programme "The Sound of Cumbria" featuring Norman Nicholson; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: John Irwin of Millom, Poet and Playwright; Subjects: Drama & Literature: Recordings of plays and poems; items: 53 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Sellafield Stories Oral History Project; Subjects: Oral History: One hundred interviews of varying lengths, with people of varying connections to the Windscale/Sellafield nuclear site. Each interview file contains a full recording of an interview for consultation by researchers along with a summary of the interview and a full transcript of the interview; items: 100 Audio CD-R, 100 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Voices of Cumbria Millennium Oral History Project; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews conducted by local history groups in Distington, Eskdale, Lorton, Millom and Whitehaven; items: 40 Compact Cassette. Collection name: West Cumbria Oral History Network; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews conducted by various societies with wide range of subjects who had lived or worked in West Cumbria; items: 54 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Ambleside Oral History Group with Lorton and Derwentfells Group; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews conducted by with range of subjects who had lived or worked in Lorton Valley area; items: 15 Compact Cassette, 41 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Harrington Local History Society; Subjects: Oral History: Oral History interviews; items: 3 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Corney History Group; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews conducted with range of subjects who had lived or worked in Corney area; items: 6 Compact Cassette. Collection name: West Cumbria Oral History Project; Subjects: Oral History: Yance Ower: Interviews with residents of Harrington and Clifton; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Mining in West Cumbria; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews on mining in West Cumbria; items: 9 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Smith family and the Strands Inn, Nether Wasdale; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with family members; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: West Cumbria College Oral History Project 2001; Subjects: Oral History: College history; items: 28 Compact Cassette. Collection name: West Cumberland Water Board; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Opening of Barepot Pumping Station and Treatment Works, 1966; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Whitehaven Methodist Circuit; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Services held to celebrate the opening of a school extension, 1975; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Whitehaven Methodist Circuit; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Recordings from Methodist Association of Youth Clubs' London Weekend; items: 1 Compact Cassette,
Contacts

Telephone: 

01946 506420

Contact name 1: 

Catherine Clark

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