Royal Voluntary Service
ORAL HISTORY
Here is a selection of edited audio clips from some of our oral history interviews. These have been conducted with various residents and other individuals so far within the project where they live. Whilst the overall theme is of ‘work’ within the borough the individuals taking part are encouraged to freely talk about any related memories or anecdotes that they feel are of importance to them and which others might also find of interest.
Kind thanks to all of those who gave their time to talk to us.
The participants contributing within these audio clips are:
David Luff (Colliers Wood), Zigi Sinnette, Jim Goddard, Sandra Hall, Ian Veacock, Joyce Veacock, Lorraine O'Halloran, Frank Starkey, Vera Starkey, Helen McNamara (High Path), Mark Pickett (Watermeads), Brenda Josiah (Phipps Bridge), Arthur Brice, Wade Brice (New Close), Doreen Rigsby, Madeleine Healey, Ted Bates (Morden), Irene Burroughs (Mitcham), Lillian Long (Mary Tate Cottages, Cricket Green).
Explore the recordings below to hear people’s spoken history and recollections from years gone by.
Working at the Liberty Print Works in the 1950s & 1960s
David Luff
Colliers Wood
Historic Records of the Wandle Valley
Zigi Sinnette
Glebe Court
The Life of a Working Woman in the early 20th Century
Mark Pickett
Watermeads
Watermeads
Mitcham's Belt of Factories
Sandra Hall
Glebe Court
Family connections to Old Industries
Ian Veacock,
Joyce Veacock,
Lorraine O'Halloran
High Path
The workers community at The Liberty Works
David Luff
Colliers Wood
How Wimbledon and Micham have Changed Over The Years
Lorraine O'Halloran
High Path
Gilliat Hatfeild
Brenda Josiah
Phipps Bridge
Van Boy at Renshaw's 1936
Arthur Brice
New Close
Printing
Frank Starkey
High Path
New Home on the Edge of Urbanisation 1934
Doreen Rigsby
Morden
Mother's Job as a Seamstress & Royalty
Irene Burroughs
Mitcham
Corfield’s Saucepans & Artificial Legs
Helen McNamara
High Path
First Job as a Cobbler
Jim Goddard
Glebe Court
Growing Up in Mitcham
Lorraine O'Halloran & Ian Veacock
High Path
1940s at Liberty's
Lillian Long
Mary Tate Cottages, Cricket Green
Memories of the Farm
Madeleine Healey
Morden
Very Local Jobs
Vera Starkey
High Path
Palmers Iron Foundry
Ted Bates at Palmers
Morden Road
Factory Explosion & Redskin Village
Wade Brice
New Close
Downs Surgical Instruments
Wade Brice
New Close