Level: Category
Sound Archive
Level: Fonds
BASILDON HERITAGE
Scope and Content:
Title: Basildon Development from 1952 by former Council Chairman
Speaker(s): Dove, Alfred
Date of recording: 3/10/85
Addl. documentation: Transcript
Length of tape: 111 Minutes
Depositor: Basildon Heritage
Restrictions: Basildon Heritage
Synopsis of tape: Interview with Alfred Dove, born Shoreditch 1919; childhood in East End and Dagenham; at 14, worked as shop boy in Co-op; wartime service in RAMC; in 1952, appointed Manager of first small Co-op in Basildon; description of first 100 houses built in field with unmade roads; joined tenants' association; joined Labour Party, elected Councillor for Fryerns East Ward in 1956; Leader of Labour Group 1959-63, Chairman of Council 1963; detailed account of Basildon's development from 1952 to 1985 and history and activities of Council; development of Laindon and Pitsea; account of 'new town' of Dagenham in 1929; anecdotes, descriptions of the new town's way of life and economic progress.
Dates of Creation:
1985

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Housing Basildon Development from 1952 by former Council Chairman, 1985
Subjects Housing Basildon Development from 1952 by former Council Chairman, 1985
Subjects Local government Basildon Development from 1952 by former Council Chairman, 1985
Document Types Sound recording Basildon Development from 1952 by former Council Chairman, 1985