Hackney Archives

Location: 

Dalston CLR James Library
Dalston Square
London
E8 3BQ
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

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Collection name:; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Copies of radio programmes, various dates; items: 1 Open Reel Tape, 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: "Hackney Voices"; Subjects: Drama & Literature: Readings from various documents in the Archives collection, produced by Hackney Archives and the Friends of Hackney Archives and performed locally. Created 1993; items: 3 Open Reel Tape, 5 Compact Cassette. Collection name: "Sound Work"; Subjects: Oral History: By John Grieve. Made for the Tesco site on Morning Lane in 1998. Incorporating comments from passers by and reminiscence material; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name:; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews taken with older people who were living, or had lived, in Hackney. It seems to have been part of an on-going project or policy by the Archives to interview older people in the Borough. All the interviews were taken by Archives staff between 1982 and 1987. Although there happens to be a fair bit of information on Hackney during WWII, there seems to be no particular subject focus. The dates concerning which the people were interviewed about cover much of the early to mid-Twentieth Century; items: 40 Open Reel Tape, 30 Compact Cassette, 6 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Interview with Mrs. Muriel McCombie; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history interview taken in 1990. The interviewee was the widow of the last Secretary of the Hoxton Market Christian Mission, and that is the main subject of the interview; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Interview with Mrs. Mary Shanks; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history interview, taken in 1993-4, The interviewee moved into the Borough in 1910, aged 4; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Interviews with Ridley Road Market traders; Subjects: Oral History: September 1999; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name:; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history interviews from the 1960s - 1970s, probably taken by Hackney Archives staff. These may or may not have been part of one project. Interviewees seem to be Hackney residents or former residents. A wide variey of subjects are covered; items: 10 Open Reel Tape, 3 Compact Cassette, 7 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Living Room; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history project with the residents of Holly Street Estate in 1994. The interviewer is Alison Marchant; items: 6 Compact Cassette,
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020 8356 8925

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Sian Mogridge

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