Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, [Liverpool]
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A018
Creator(s): Bond, Francis Keith
Site Location(s): Subject - Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom( 53.4106, -2.97794 ); Subject - Eccleston, Chorley, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.6424, -2.72162 )
Date(s): [1973/1974]
Size and medium: 1 audiocassette.; Duration: 87' 56".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414068
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Kathy Bond [collector's mother] relates her recollections of living in the Huyton area of Liverpool during World War Two - air raids, prisoners-of-war, transit camps, VJ Day celebrations, rationing, marriage in 1949. [Tr. 3]
Harry [Hardmand], dairy farmer during World War Two in Eccleston, near St Helens. Reference to bombs on [Carmelite] and [?Giller's Green], Manchester and Liverpool; food, rationing, casual labour, public transport; reference to food during World War One [Tr. 4]; childhood in St Helens, farming, milk deliveries. [Tr. 1]
Bernard T. Farrell relates World War Two recollections, including humorous anecdotes. [Tr. 2]
6 of 6.
Biography or history
Bernard T. Farrell served with the Royal Corps of Engineers and fought in Europe during World War 2.
Harry Hardmand, b. 1895.
Access and usage
Reproduction
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Physical and technical conditions
Poor quality recording in places: interference caused by the ?knocking of the microphone.
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