Welcome to the Salford Quays Heritage Centre Oral History Archive. Here you will find a small selection of audio extracts from our oral history collection, which you can listen to in real-time via streaming RealAudio. Along with each extract you will also find a transcript, and a related image.
Click on an underlined item below to hear the audio extract for each category.
In order to listen to the audio extracts, you will need the RealAudio player, available from www.real.com
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Salford Docks | Office work Unloading grain Getting work Overtime Dock Police |
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Merchant Navy | Knowing the ropes Getting work Foreign seamen The Great Lakes Getting logged |
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Life in Ordsall | Wartime Mill work Housing Kids adventures Teaching The Hollies |
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Trafford Park | First day at work Wartime food Bombs Engineering Living in the Village |