Southampton Archives, Southampton City Council

Location: 

Civic Centre
Southampton
SO14 7LY
United Kingdom
Description

Collection owner: 

Library/Archive

Holdings: 

Collection name: Southampton City Council Oral History Unit Collection; Subjects: Oral History: Over 800 recordings of interviews with local people on life and work in Southampton. Projects relating to local communities (Chapel and Northam, Woolston, Millbrook, Holy Rood), leisure (cinema, football), maritime history (dockworkers, seafarers, Queen Mary, women at sea, Titanic, Thornycroft's shipyard), wartime (WW1 women workers, Blitz, D-Day, Home Front) and immigration (African Caribbean, Asian women, Polish community); items: 150 Open Reel Tape, 950 Compact Cassette, 130 MiniDisc, 60 Audio CD-R. Collection name: Ford Southampton Assembly Plant Project; Subjects: Oral History: 53 interviews recorded with employees, contractors and retired employees in 2013, just before the closure of the Southampton Assembly Plant; items: 53 Digital Audio Files. Collection name: Southampton U3A Early Memories Project; Subjects: Oral History: 14 interviews relating to early memories and memories of schools in Southampton; items: 14 Compact Cassette,
Contacts

Telephone: 

023 8083 2251

Contact name 1: 

Joanne Smith

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