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All recordings and transcripts are deposited at 

East Midlands Oral History Archive & Leicestershire Record Office

Transcripts

Mrs. Annie Snow born 29th January, 1885

Miss Belton remembers

Mr. & Mrs. George Payne talk about life in Barwell when they were young

Barwell through the eyes of Mr. Artie Payne

 L Lester ( The experiences of a Barwell Policeman ) 

Memories of a Barwell man Mr. Archie Spencer

 Memories of Mr. Arthur (Snowy) Mason, Stoke Golding's Village baker .

I was born in a work house

Memories of  Mr. John Mayne - Farmer

 Mr. J. T. Gallagher ( Memories Hinckley Gas Works ) 

Mr. Harry Bevin talks to the Hinckley Local History Group about his life

Mr. Mrs. Albert Lucas    (Jobs & Marriage, )    ( The Home Front )

Mr. Ron Dickens ( How Castle Street became Pedestrianised )

David Wood ( Two points in time )

Bill Joy ( Policing the Town Centre in the 1990s

Tom Lucas ( Ex Director of a George Ward, talks about the Boot & Shoe Trade )

Jack Matlock  (Hosiery Union and Hosiery Trade in General

 Rev Brian Davis (The Vicar that tells jokes)

Mrs. Pointon (A Nurse's Story)

Reg Tipler  (Shoe Hand / Photographer / Label Printer )

Mrs. Joyce Hardy (I was an evacuated from Birmingham )  

George Geary aged 90 years talks about his life

    Elizabeth Shaw talks about her life in Burbage 

Gladys  Spencer talks about Farming in Hinckley

_{Cheips wi' Old Stockiners}

Was first published by the Hinckley Times in the 1890s.  This is a fine example of an oral 

history transcript of this period, by an interviewer who signs himself " T".  It gives an insight 

into the cottage industry and the sort of lives people lived.

Our Sam

Parish Coffin

Liza Digby

Bill Higgins

Ten Acre

Visitors Histories

  The Hinckley Mob.    People remember the Hinckley Area around 1950s /60s  

Anna Burson talks about the history of her family and the people in it.

Arthur Timson Hinckley - Recollections of the 30's

Dulcie Newton remembers life in the 1920s

Thoughts and Memories from Dulcie Newton

 Village Dialect by Joe Bartley "A poem about the village of Earl Shilton in dialect."

An Oral History recording of how people lived and worked in 1843 

recorded in their own words by a local man

Transcripts 1843

 JOHN BROOKS FRAME WORK KNITTER OF HINCKLEY GAVE EVIDENCE ON 

THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH PEOPLE LIVED IN HINCKLEY  1843  

We now look at the Hinckley's  Pawnbroker  Nicholas Eales in  1843 in his own words 

George Carter Framework Knitter og Stoke Golding

Mr Thomas Samuel Hinckley Union Medical Officer