The Ramsbottom Heritage Society has always been interested in recording memories of residents, and there are now over 80 recordings on cassette tape, which have been converted to digital format and made available on the website, where the interviewee has given permission.
This page will be the index of the recordings and as each recording is converted, a link will be given to a description of the recording and the recording can be downloaded for personal use. If a recording is required for business or commercial purposes, please contact the Society. We are looking for volunteers to listen to the tape and produce a synopsis, so if there is no description, get in touch and we’ll let you know if anyone else has been allocated to the recording.
Table of recordings
| Recording ID | Subject Matter | Name of the Interviewee | Date of the interview | Recording |
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| T01 | Mills from Summerseat to Stubbins | Mrs Florence Scholes | 1987/ 1988 | Yes - Side 1
Yes - Side 2 |
| T02 | Life in Ramsbottom | Mr Charles Hall | Oct-87 | Yes - Side 1 |
| T03 | Life in Ramsbottom | Mrs Ellen Mills | 1987-88 | Yes - Side 1 |
| T04 | Life in Ramsbottom | Mr Joe Barlow | Sep-87 | Yes - |
| T05 | Memories | Mr Harry Archerly | Yes - | |
| T06 | Life in Ramsbottom | Clara Booth | 1987 | Yes - |
| T07 | Memories of Ramsbottom | Elsie Baker | 13/01/1988 | Yes - |
| T08 | Memories of Ramsbottom | Amy Greenhalgh | 17/01/1988 | Yes - |
| T09 | Frank Galpin | Yes - | ||
| T10 | Memories of Shuttleworth & District | Wildred Beswick JP | 23/08/1988 | Yes - |
| T11 | Grant Family Ancestry | Mrs Constance Whittam | 17/10/1990 | Yes - |
| T12 | Eric Quinn | Yes - | ||
| T13 | Housing WW2 Evacuees | Mrs P Rodwell | 21/08/1989 | Permission not given for public use |
| T14 | J Crabtree | Permission not given for public use |
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| T15 | Mrs Edith Duckworth | 26/08/1997 | Yes- ] |
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| T16a | Mr Thomas Wightman | 08/09/1997 | Yes- ] |
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| T16b | Mr Thomas Wightman | 01/06/2001 | Yes- |
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| T17a | Margaret Nolan | 01/10/1997 | Yes- | |
| T17b | Margaret Nolan | 01/10/1997 | Yes- | |
| T18 | Mrs Edith Robinson | 15/04/1996 | Yes - | |
| T19a | George and Margaret Kay | 27/11/1997 | Yes - | |
| T19b | George and Margaret Kay | 27/11/1997 | Yes - | |
| T19c | George Kay | 27/11/1997 | Yes - | |
| T20 | Jim Welding | Yes - | ||
| T21 | Mrs Doris Hillary | 01/03/1998 | Yes - | |
| T22a | Mr Keith Bradbury | 28/05/1998 | Yes - | |
| T22b | Mr Keith Bradbury | 28/05/1998 | Yes - | |
| T23 | Jennie Johns | 16/12/1997 | Yes - | |
| T24 | Aliice O'Donnell | 16/12/1998 | Yes - | |
| T25a | Mrs Marion Beech | 16/02/1999 | Yes - | |
| T25b | Harry Beech | 16/02/1999 | Yes - | |
| T25c | Mrs Marion Beech | 16/02/1999 | Yes - |
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| T26 | Mrs Irene Green and Dorothy Farnell | 05/07/1999 | Yes - |
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| T27a | Frank Warwick Hall | 08/11/1999 | Yes - |
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| T27b | Frank Warwick Hall - continued | 08/11/1999 | Yes - |
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| T28a | Harry Hoyle | 05/07/1999 | Yes - |
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| T28b | Harry Hoyle - continued | 05/07/1999 | Yes - |
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| T29 | Margaret Hammersley | 18/01/2001 | Yes - |
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| T30 | Miss Joan Barcroft | 24/01/2001 | Yes - |
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| T31a | Jack Holden | 07/03/2001 | Yes - |
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| T31b | Jack Holden | 07/03/2001 | Yes - | |
| T32 | John Lomax | 02/05/2001 | Yes - | |
| T33a | Brian Lamb | 26/04/2001 | Yes - | |
| T33b | Brian Lamb | 26/04/2001 | Yes - | |
| T34 | Cyril Davenport | Yes - |
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| T35 | Mrs Marion Beech | may 2001 | Yes - |
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| T36 | Edith Wood | Yes - | ||
| T37a | Coronation and Childhood Memories | Mrs Doris Hibbert | 09/12/2002 | Yes - |
| T37d | Mrs Doris Hibbert | 05/03/2006 | Yes - | |
| T38 | Edwin Longworth | 27/06/2001 | Yes - | |
| T39 | WW2 and General Memories (NWSA) | Lorna McTintosh | 01/06/2001 | Yes - |
| T40a | Fred Entwistle | 1990 and 1994 | ||
| T40b | Mrs E. Moore | 26/08/1990 | ||
| T40c | Mr Chapman | 02/06/1990 | ||
| T41 | General Memories Also on the recordings are James's wife Gladys, their daughter Gladys Hamer and Roger Hamer | James Davenport | 01/03/2005 | Yes - Side 1 Yes - Side 2 Yes - Side 3 |
| Recordings T42 to T46 | Recorded by the North West Sound Archive | and posted with their permission | ||
| T42 | Evacuation from Guernsey, and Ramsbottom Memories | Elizabeth Haworth | 30/06/2001 | Yes - |
| T43 | Memories of Edenfield | Frank Woods | 30/06/2001 | Yes - |
| T44 | Reminiscences of Ramsbottom | Dorothy Moss | 30/06/2001 | Yes - |
| T45 | Childhood in Bolton, and Ramsbottom | John Maude | 30/06/2001 | Yes - |
| T46 | Ramsbottom Library Service | Bill Bennion | 23/07/2001 | Yes - |
| T47 | Childhood play, teenage leisure | Barbara Southern | 20/06/2006 | Yes - |
| T48 | Ships, Gas Mantles, Tippler's, Soundscape, 1950's | Eddy Chatwood | 20/06/2006 | Yes - |
| T49 | General memories including World War 1 and World War 2 | Violet Gregg | 23/06/2006 | Yes - |
| T50 | Father Ramsbottom Police Sgt., 1931-39; Amateur Dramatics (Summerseat Players) | Leslie Richard Norris | 05/03/2006 | Yes - |
| T51 | Recollections of Grant's Tower | Dorothy O'Reilly and Emily Bellenes | 05/03/2006 | Yes - |
| T52 | Miscellaneous recollections | Brian Farlow | Mar-06 | Duration - 01:08:59 |
| T53 | Memories of FD Sims Wireworks | Denis Frearson | 03/02/2006 | Duration - 00:39:19 |
| T54 | Frank Richardson | 19/05/2006 | Original tape not audible | |
| T55 | Grandmothers memories of Nuttall | Norma Mills | 22/11/2006 | Duration - 00:39:01 |
| T56 | General memories of Edenfield and Rosebank | Phillip Dunne | 29/08/2007 | Duration - 01:29:10 |
| Recordings T57 to 67 | Recorded by the North West Sound Archive | and posted with their permission | ||
| T57 | Memories of Crow Lane in the 1950s | Geraldine Mercer | 10/05/2003 | Duration - 00:45:36 |
| T58 | Memories of Crow Lane and Ramsbottom | Richard, Irene and Frank Hall | 10/05/2003 | Duration - 00:40:42 |
| T59 | Memories of Crow Lane and St Paul's | Tony Ashworth | 10/05/2003 | Duration - 00:12:27 |
| T60 | Memories of Crow Lane and St Paul's | Jack Isherwood | 10/05/2003 | Duration - 00:17:12 |
| T61 | Memories of Crow Lane and St Paul's | Doreen and Fred Bardsley | 10/05/2003 | Duration - 00:31:38 |
| T62 | Living in Ramsbottom from 1929 to 2007 | Florence Nadin | 15/07/2007 | Duration - 00:32:52 |
| T63 | Living in Ramsbottom from 1930 to 2007, Derek spent his career in education | Derek and Zena Middleton | 15/07/2007 | Duration - 00:53:07 |
| T64 | Ramsbottom in the 1930s and working at the wire works | Muriel Clark | 15/07/2007 | Durartion - 00:32:49 |
| T65 | Brother and Sister growing up in a shop on Crow Lane in the 1930s | Barbara Jones/Alan Richardson | 10/05/2003 | Duaration - 00:33:37 |
| T66 | Farming and Agricultural Sales | Raymond Wilcox | 12/01/2009 | Duaration- 01:23:34 |
| T67 | Living in Nuttall Village in the 1940s | James E Isherwood | 01/02/2011 | Duration - 00:27:54 |