Scope and Content:
Recordings from Harlow Museum, including oral histories, talking newspapers, radio broadcasts, and talks about the history of Harlow. The oral histories were predominantly recorded from 1983 to 1987 and then for the fiftieth anniversary of Harlow New Town in 1997.

Oral histories

1. Interview with Mr Harvey, White and Bateman, 1968 (1 cassette)
2. Interview with Mrs Amy Ward, 6 January 1980 to 19 February 1994 (1 cassette)
3. Interview with Miss Ellen Jessie Ayrton, 28 January 1983 (2 cassettes and typed transcript)
4. Interview with Mr C.H. Gilbey, 25 January and 1 February 1983 (2 cassettes and typed transcript)
5. Interview with Mr C. Turner, 3 and 10 February 1983 (2 cassettes and typed transcript)
6. Interview with Mr Stanley Porcher, 8 February 1983 (4 cassettes and typed transcript)
7. Interview with Mrs M.A. Smith, 11 and 18 February 1983 (3 cassettes)
8. Interview with Mr Cedric Barrack, 17 and 22 February 1983 (3 cassettes and typed transcript)
9. Interview with Mrs Stowers, 23 February 1983 (1 cassette)
10. Interview with Miss G. French, 25 February and 4 March 1983 (2 cassettes and typed transcript)
11. Interview with Miss F. Lincoln, 8, 15 and 23 March 1983 (4 cassettes and typed transcript)
12. Interview with Mrs N. Voller, 10 March 1983 (1 cassette)
13. Interview with Mrs L. Granger, 24 March 1983 (1 cassette)
14. Interview with Mrs H.M. Dickens, 6 and 8 July 1983 (2 cassettes)
15. Interview with Mr W.G. Lambert, 25 July 1983 (2 cassettes)
16. Interview with Mrs D.A. White, 26 July 1983 (2 cassettes)
17. Interview with Mr W.H. Horsnell and Mrs Horsnell, 27 July and 9 August 1983 (2 cassettes)
18. Interview with Mr D.J. Ong, 29 July and 2 August 1983 (2 cassettes)
19. Interview with Mrs M. Passfield, 11 August 1983 (1 cassette)
20. Interview with Mrs E.M. Baker, 12 August 1983 (1 cassette)
21. Interview with Mr H. Saville, 12 and 16 August 1983 (3 cassettes)
22. Interview with Mr H. Moore, 19 August 1983 (2 cassettes)
23. Interview with Mr A. Crouchman, 23 August 1983 (1 cassette)
24. Interview with Miss E.M. King, 23 and 30 August 1983 (2 cassettes)
25. Interview with Mr E. Negus, 24 August and 1 September 1983 (1 cassette)
26. Interview with Mr J.H. Parrish, 6 September 1983 (1 cassette)
27. Interview with Mr B. Springham, 6 and 16 September 1983 (1 cassette)
28. Interview with Mr E.H. Elliot, 15 September 1983 (2 cassettes)
29. Interview with Mrs A. Greenham, 1985 (1 cassette)
30. Interview with Mrs Audrey Clarke, 18 April 1986 (1 cassette and typed transcript)
31. Interview with Mrs Lucy McKenzie, 24 June 1986 (1 cassette and typed transcript)
32. Interview with Mr G.E. Ruggles-Brise, 6 November 1986 (1 cassette)
33. Interview with Miss K. Geer, 20 January 1987 (1 cassette)
34. Interview with Mr T. Chalk, 18 March 1987 (1 cassette and typed transcript)
35. Interview with Hugh Kerr, undated (2 tape reels)
36. Interview with Malcolm Snow and Mike Tinn, 16 January 1997 (1 cassette)
37. Interview with Val Jepps, 23 January 1997 (1 cassette)
38. Interview with Mr Fish, undated (1 cassette)
39. Interview with Lady Patricia Gibberd, undated (1 cassette)
40. Interview with Ron Bill, 30 January 1997 (1 cassette)
41. Interview with Stan Newens, 7 February 1997 (2 cassettes)
42. Interview with Daphne and Doug Pennick, 13 February 1997 (1 cassette)
43. Interviews with Tony Norrie and Kevin Collier, 20 February 1997 (1 cassette)
44. Interview with Mr and Mrs Bowa, 27 February 1997 (1 cassette)
45. Interview with Hilary Ward, 13 March 1997 (1 tape reel)
46. Interviews with Claire Thomson and Maggie Lawlor, 13 March 1997 (2 cassettes)
47. Interview with Jerry Hayes, 14 March 1997 (1 cassette)
48. Interview with Jack Mitchley, 21 March 1997 (2 cassettes)
49. Interview with John Parsons and Eric Board, undated (1 cassette)
50. Interview with G. Sachel (Norter), 25 March 1997 (1 cassette)
51. Interview with Howard Davis, 25 March 1997 (1 cassette)
52. Interview with Jane Quinton, 10 April 1997 (1 cassette)
53. Interview with Graham Bell, undated (1 cassette)
54. Interview with Glen Hoddle, 17 April 1997 (1 cassette)
55. Interviews at Burnt Mill and Mark Hall Schools, 18 April 1997 (1 cassette)
56. Interview with Bill Brammell, 2 May 1997 (1 cassette)
57. Fiftieth Anniversary Recollections (2 cassettes)
58. Interview with Mr Alderson and Mrs Thompson, undated (1 cassette)

Harlow Talking Newspaper and Harlow Talk Magazine

59. Harlow Talking Newspaper Tenth Anniversary Souvenir Edition, 1989 (1 cassette)
60. Harlow Talk Magazine, January 1992 (1 cassette)
61. Harlow Talk Magazine V.E. Day Memories, May 1995 (1 cassette)

Radio broadcasts

62. Frederick Gibberd’s Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 12 August 1983 (1 cassette)
63. Harlow 40th Anniversary, Eve Conway, LBC 22-25 March 1987 (1 cassette)
64. ‘Harlow – The Early Years’, BBC Essex, 27 March 1987 (2 cassettes)
65. Harlow on Down Your Way, BBC Radio 4, 8 August 1987 (2 cassettes)
66. The World At One, BBC Radio 4, 27 November 1990 (1 cassette)
67. Harlow’s Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, Derek Jameson, BBC Radio 2, 16 July 1991 (1 cassette)
68. Home Front, BBC Radio 4, 24 March 1995 (1 cassette)

Events, exhibitions and miscellaneous

69. 1947 News programmes (1 cassette)
70. Bernard Stevens’ ‘Choriam’ for orchestra, commissioned for Harlow Festival 1969 (1 cassette)
71. Spinney Infant & Nursery, July 1977 (1 cassette)
72. Town Show 1979 Slide Show commentary (1 cassette)
73. Slide Show 1980 (1 cassette)
74. Harlow Museum school visit - introduction to Roman Room, R. Doughty, 25 January 1983 (1 cassette)
75. Len White – social planning for the town, 11 March 1983 (1 cassette)
76. Harlow – Tenant Participation, 16 August 1984 (1 cassette)
77. Talk on history of Harlow Museum, 1984 (1 cassette)
78. Talks on the history of Harlow and local plan (Ian Jones on the history of Harlow up to 1947, Jackie Starcy on the development of the New Town, 1947 to 1987, and the planning department on the 1987 local plan), 1987 (1 cassette)
79. History of Harlow Town - Ian Jones, undated (1 cassette)
80. Stravinsky’s Persephone, performed by the Cantate Youth Choir and BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms, 10 August 2003 (1 cassette)
81. Harlow Council, The Creative Team, undated (1 cassette)
82. Harlow Pulse – A Great Place to Grow, undated (1 cassette)
83. Essex Hundreds, undated (2 cassettes)
84. F. Gibberd – Design of Town, undated (1 cassette)
85. Exhibition sound tracks, undated (1 cassette)

Includes two typed transcripts without associated recordings:

86. Interview with Betty Parfitt, 8 March 1983
87. Interview with Mr and Mrs Mead, 28 August 1986
Extent:
114 cassettes, 3 tape reels, and 11 typed transcri
Catalogue Reference:
SA 85
Dates of Description:
1968 - 2003

Accession Boxes for SA946

SA946 Box 158 cassettesNot to be produced
SA946 Box 256 cassettesNot to be produced
SA946 Box 311 typed transcriptsNot to be produced
SA946 Box 43 tape reelsNot to be produced