Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies

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Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies
Register Office Block, CHR 002
Hertford
SG13 8EJ
United Kingdom
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Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Education Department, Hitchin Girls' School; Subjects: Radio; Advert: HGS advert re: centenary requesting old pupils and former teachers contact the school, intended to be aired on local radio, 1988-89; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Various vinyl recordings relating to Hertfordshire; Subjects: Classical Music; World, Folk & Traditional Music; Popular Music & Jazz; Speeches & Events: Music (pop, rock, New Wave, punk, psychedelic and blues) recorded in Buntingford and Welwyn Garden City; carols and anthems from Christ's Hospital, Hertford and a thanksgiving service for the life and work of Sir Barnes Wallis who worked at Christ's Hospital, 1980-1986, 8 items (3 are copies); items: Lacquer Disc,8 Vinyl Disc. Collection name: Marlowes Methodist Church, Hemel Hempstead; Subjects: Classical Music; World, Folk & Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: Service of rededication and Centenary Service; Remembrance Service and 'The Living Church' anthropology; organ recital, 1990; items: 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Harpenden High Street Methodist Church and Circuit; Subjects: Classical Music; World, Folk and Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: High Street Choir "Born in Song" (2 tapes, approx running time 24 mins each) Nov 1987; High Street Church Anniversary and dedication of rebuilt organ by Rev John Walker, Morning Service 20 Sep 1998, audio tape; items: 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Recordings concerning the history of Hertfordshire village, 2012; Subjects: Documentary & News: Researched and narrated by Jack Samman. The CDs were recorded at The Cream Room Recording Studio, Home Farm, Dane End, with music by Rob Clydesdale, 2 items, 2012; items: 2 published CD. Collection name: Watford Talking Newspaper; Subjects: Documentary & News: 29 cassettes, May 2003 - Sep 2004; items: 20 Compact Cassette. Collection name: The 398th Bomb Group (Heavy) (8th American Air Force), stationed at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, 1944-1945, and of the 398th Bomb Group Memorial Association; Subjects: Documentary & News: Story of people involved in the crash of a B25 Marauder, 30 Aug 1944, at Broken Green Farm near Standon, nd; items: 1 Compact Cassette. "Collection name: Hertfordshire Girl Guides; Subjects: Documentary & News: ""The World Chief Guide Reviews the First 60 Years of Guiding and Looks Forward to the Future"". 1 small magnetic tape (9 mins, 10 sec long); items: 1 Open Reel Tape, ". Collection name: Passing Places Project by Hertford Museum; Subjects: Documentary & News: Interviews with Gypsy Traveller community, 5 tracks, 1 audio CD-R; items: 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Adult Care Services Department: Gypsy Section; Subjects: Documentary & News: Sound recording made at Gypsy encampment at Holwell near Cole Green, 1965; items: 1 Open Reel Tape. Collection name: Hertfordshire League of the Hard of Hearing; Subjects: Documentary & News: Living With A Hearing Loss; Introduction and Dr. John Knight; Mrs V Wright; Peter Coker; Brian Grant and Summing up; items: 8 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Red Saturn Talking Newspaper and Colour Supplement; Subjects: Documentary & News: 151 master cassettes, Aug 1988 - Dec 2000; items: 151 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Recording of an interview with Professor Barker of Southampton University concerning his research into the health visitors' registers; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Broadcast by the BBC 'File on 4' programme, Nov 1998; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Stevenage Kadoma Link; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Kadoma Link Education Group programme broadcast on BBC World Service, 1987-1991; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Diocese of St Albans; Subjects: Documentary & News; Radio: Roots for Life - Bishop John interviewed on Radio Beds, 13 Sep 1992; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hertfordshire Society for the Blind; Subjects: Documentary & News; Speeches & Events: Radio talks and reading of Society's old constitution, 2 tapes, nd and 2005; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: SNAP Theatre Company; Subjects: Drama & Literature: Soundtracks, cues and pre-show music for performances; radio edits, all 1970s - 2006; items: 11 Open Reel Tape, 3 Compact Cassette, 28 MiniDisc, 21 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Aldenham, St John the Baptist; Subjects: Drama & Literature: Tape relating to staging of "Tableaux of the Christmas Story" in Aldenham, probably Valentine Dyall reading Bible passages for the Tableaux, nd (1960-1961); items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Sound recordings relating to health visiting, 1920s-1940s, in Hertfordshire; Subjects: Oral History: The tape recordings and transcripts originated in interviews with men and women who lived or were born in Hertfordshire concerning their experience of health, childbirth and family life in the 1920s-1940s. The interviews were carried out in 1993 and 1994 by Pauline King and Rosalind O'Brien of Essex University as part of a 15 month project on 'The Hertfordshire Health Visiting Scheme in Historical Context 1910-1940' which was funded by the Wellcome Institute and supervised by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova; items: 85 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Reminiscences of Alice Deal, relating to Little Hadham and other places; Subjects: Oral History: The subjects covered include: Songs, the Salvation Army (London), music hall (Edgware Road), husband's work at Dolgellau, Wales, Deal (Lord Chancellor), gardening, Oxford, Wales, mother and father (Hertford), how she met her husband, how she broke her nose. Family, christmas hamper, house and garden, Sunday school, life on a farm - all relating to Little Hadham School, pony and cart to Elmdon, parlourmaid for Mrs Baxter, taking breakfast to Mr Baxter; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hertfordshire residents on their experiences of World War II and earlier life history; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings: interviews with 7 women; items: 8 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Sound recordings of interviews with Cell Barnes hospital staff; Subjects: Oral History: Sound recordings of interviews with Cell Barnes hospital staff, St Albans made in 1997; items: 7 Compact Cassette, 8 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Commuter Journeys in Hertfordshire; Subjects: Oral History: Interviews with commuters re: journeys made between 1927-1984, 9 items, 1990-1991; items: 9 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Miscellaneous documents relating to Hatfield; Subjects: Oral History: Oral history recordings concerning the development of Hatfield from the Mesolithic period through to the present day, nd. Tape 1 - Mesolithic period to 17th century, Tape 2 - 18th century, Tape 3 - 1837-1900, Tape 4 - 20th century; items: 4 Compact Cassette. Collection name: North and Sons Ltd, speedometer manufacturers, Watford; Subjects: Oral History: Recording of an interview with Mr North; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Sound recordings by Hertfordshire artists or relating to Hertfordshire places, 1970s - 1980s; Subjects: Oral History; Classical Music; World, Folk & Traditional Music; Popular Music & Jazz; Language & Dialect; Documentary & News; Wildlife & Natural Sounds; Speeches & Events: Collection includes copies of a number of items; items: Lacquer Disc,68 Vinyl Disc, 5 Open Reel Tape, 32 Compact Cassette. Collection name: The 398th Bomb Group (Heavy) (8th American Air Force), stationed at Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire, 1944-1945, and of the 398th Bomb Group Memorial Association; Subjects: Oral History; Speeches & Events: Recollections of life at American Air Force Station 131 in Nuthampstead (1 hour, poor recording); recollection of combat and bombing experiences (30 mins long); presentation at reunion event entitled 'The Other Side of War'; presentation entitled 'Reflections on Greatness' about a member of the 398th Bomb Group (25 mins long); presentation 'A Grandmother's Wish' re: dedication of memorial window (25 mins long, master copy), 5 tapes (all late 20th century); items: 5 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hockerill Training College; Subjects: Oral History; World, Folk & Traditional Music; Documentary & News; Speeches & Events: Down Your Way, 1962; Interview of Miss Simpson and Miss Gardy (Hockerill students 1902-1904), 1965; Opening ceremony and church service celebrated on visit of Princess Margaret, 1966; Commemoration celebration, Hockerill College, 1852-1979, 1978; items: 3 Open Reel Tape, 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: HM Coroner, Hitchin; Subjects: Inquests: Inquest tape cassettes, 1992-1994; items: 164 Compact Cassette. Collection name: HM Coroner, Hitchin; Subjects: Inquests: Inquest tape cassettes, 1993-1995; items: 68 Compact Cassette. Collection name: HM Coroner, Hitchin; Subjects: Inquests: Inquest tape cassettes, 1984-1996; items: 177 Compact Cassette. Collection name: HM Coroner, Hertford; Subjects: Inquests: Inquest tape cassettes, 1970-1996; items: 200 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Education Department, Mountbatten School, Hemel Hempstead; Subjects: School Work: Pupils' TVEI Vocational French assessed work, 1989-1991; items: 9 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Finance Department; Subjects: Training Resource: Introduction to Hertfordshire County Council's computer, The Electronic Computer at County Hall, nd [c1964], 1 LP; items: Lacquer Disc,1 Vinyl Disc. Collection name: Little Hormead, St Mary; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Record of a church service at St Nicholas, Great Hormead, 1959; items: Lacquer Disc,1 Vinyl Disc. Collection name: Welwyn Garden City Urban District Council; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Recording of speeches made at the opening of the Louis de Soissons memorial gardens by HM the Queen, May 1970 and copy, Jul 1991; items: 2 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Address to the Royal Aeronautical Society, Hatfield Branch; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Talk by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, 21 Apr 1948. Possibly recorded by Dr R Melarange; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Berkhamsted United Reformed Church; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Re-dedication Service, 1998; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Diocese of St Albans; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Recording of residential conference for St Albans Diocese clergy at Keble College, Oxford, 1970; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Eastgate Masonic Lodge No 6694; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Oration by Worshipful Brother Revd. F Finch at 25th Anniversary, (c.1973?); items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Great Amwell Women's Institute; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Recording of a church service for an 80th birthday, master copy; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Harpenden High Street Methodist Church and Circuit; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Revd. C Alan Stephens' Easter Rally at Batford Church, 1955 (duplicate of Acc 4593); items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Education Department; Subjects: Speeches & Events: 75 x tapes of public consultation meetings - various schools, 1986 - 1988; items: 75 Compact Cassette. Collection name: History of Therfield; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Audio tape recording of a talk by Mr R Foster on the history of Therfield; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: St Albans and Welwyn Methodist Circuit; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Tape of the centenary service (service held on 28 Jun 1998); items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Records relating to West Hertfordshire; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Possibly readings at funeral service of Connie Howard, of Kinsbourne Green, nd [1996?]; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Bushey Heath, St Peter; Subjects: Speeches & Events: Bishop (?) Michael Nazir-Ali, 5 Jul 2009, 1 audio cassette; Sermons 2001, 2 cds (5kb and 4kb=0.009Mb); items: 1 Compact Cassette, 2 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Hertfordshire County Council, Education Department, Nevells Road Nursery School, Letchworth; Subjects: Speeches & Events; Radio: Nursery School consultation meeting; presentation; radio phone-ins; audio letter from parents and pupils as part of campaign to save the school, 5 tapes and 1 CD, 2000; items: 5 Compact Cassette, 1 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Diocese of St Albans; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music: Roots for Life soundtrack, 1992; items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Harpenden High Street Methodist Church and Circuit; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: Revd. C Alan Stephens' Easter Rally at Batford Church, 1955 (sermon, music inc choir performances, Bible readings, testimonies); items: 1 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Herts and Essex High School, Bishops Stortford; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: Opening of building by Lady Plowden, 25 May 1967, 1 magnetic recording tape (note to say each side plays 1 hour 4 mins); "That's Life Kids! A Right Royal Day", including First Year pupils of Herts and Essex High School, 1986, 1 vinyl record (45 rpm); Music for Christmas, 1976, 1 cassette; Music for Royal Wedding, 1986, 1 cassette; items: Lacquer Disc,1 Vinyl Disc, 1 Open Reel Tape, 3 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Stevenage Methodist Circuit; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: Recording of Wesley's "Hymns Sing In" at Stevenage, c.1980s; Recording of church service at St Hugh and St John's Church, Nov 1992; Recordings of interviews with members of the Kadoma Methodist Circuit in Zimbabwe and church choirs from that circuit, c.1980s; Recordings of church services and choirs of the Kadoma Methodist Circuit, Zimbabwe, c.1980s; Recordings of various talks on religious themes, including a talk about the Kadoma Methodist Circuit in Zimbabwe prepared by that Circuit, 1987; items: 5 Compact Cassette. Collection name: Trinity United Reformed Church, St Albans; Subjects: World, Folk & Traditional Music; Speeches & Events: Audio cassette recordings of the 75th Anniversary celebration service and concert, 1978; Audio cassette recordings of morning worship services - the last service before and first service after the rebuilding of the Church, 1981, 1982; items: 4 Compact Cassette,
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