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 | Duration 00:31:54 Side 1
Duration 00:27:16 Side 2 |
| T02 | Life in Ramsbottom | Mr Charles Hall | Oct-87 | Duration 00:37:44 |
| T03 | Life in Ramsbottom | Mrs Ellen Mills | 1987-88 | Duration 00:38:34 Side 1 |
| T04a | Life in Ramsbottom | Mr Joe Barlow | Sep-87 | Duration 00:46:42 |
| T05 | Memories | Mr Harry Archerly | Duration 00:47:15 | |
| T06 | Life in Ramsbottom | Clara Booth | 1987 | Duration 00:47:11 |
| T07 | Memories of Ramsbottom | Elsie Baker | 13/01/1988 | Yes - |
| T08 | Memories of Ramsbottom | Amy Greenhalgh | 17/01/1988 | Duration 00:46:33 |
| T09 | Frank Galpin | Duration 01:45:50 | ||
| T10 | Memories of Shuttleworth & District | Wildred Beswick JP | 23/08/1988 | Duration 00:15:13 |
| T11 | Grant Family Ancestry | Mrs Constance Whittam | 17/10/1990 | Duration 00:09:33 |
| T12 | Eric Quinn | Duration 00:57:04 | ||
| 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 | Duration 00:46:53 |
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| T16a | Mr Thomas Wightman | 08/09/1997 | Duration 01:30:19 ] |
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| T16b | Mr Thomas Wightman | 01/06/2001 | Duration 00:25:59 |
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| T17 | Margaret Nolan | 01/10/1997 | Duration 02:15:13 | |
| T18 | Mrs Edith Robinson | 15/04/1996 | Duration 01:16:49 | |
| T19a | George and Margaret Kay | 27/11/1997 | Duration 01:25:10 | |
| T19b | George and Margaret Kay | 27/11/1997 | Duration 00:45:15 | |
| T19c | George Kay | 27/11/1997 | Duration 01:29:41 | |
| T20 | Jim Welding | Duration 01:01:47 | ||
| T21 | Mrs Doris Hillary | 01/03/1998 | Duration 00:15:43 | |
| T22a | Mr Keith Bradbury | 28/05/1998 | Duration 00:46:44 | |
| T22b | Mr Keith Bradbury | 28/05/1998 | Duration 00:58:51 | |
| T23 | Jennie Johns | 16/12/1997 | Duration 01:09:14 | |
| T24 | Aliice O'Donnell | 16/12/1998 | Duration 01:32:40 | |
| T25a | Mrs Marion Beech | 16/02/1999 | Duration 00:30:24 | |
| T25b | Harry Beech | 16/02/1999 | Duration 00:22:43 | |
| T25c | Mrs Marion Beech | 16/02/1999 | Duration 00:56:38 |
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| T26 | Mrs Irene Green and Dorothy Farnell | 05/07/1999 | Duration 00:45:55 |
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| T27a | memoir of Frank Hall’s performing life and a social history of Ramsbottom between the wars. | Frank Warwick Hall | 08/11/1999 | Duration 01:11:00 |
| T27b | Frank Warwick Hall - continued | 08/11/1999 | Duration 00:48:50 |
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| T28a | Memories of a painter and decorator | Harry Hoyle | 05/07/1999 | Duration 01:29:40 |
| T28b | Harry Hoyle - continued | 05/07/1999 | Duration 00:27:58 |
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| T29 | General memories of Ramsbottom | Margaret Hammersley | 18/01/2001 | Duration 01:29:22 |
| T30 | General memories of Ramsbottom from 1933 | Miss Joan Barcroft | 24/01/2001 | Duration 01:24:57 |
| T31a | General memories of Ramsbottom from 1927 | Jack Holden | 07/03/2001 | Duration 01:20:06 |
| T31b | General memories of Ramsbottom from 1927 | Jack Holden | 07/03/2001 | Duration 00:28:48 |
| T32 | Working at Porritts | John Lomax | 02/05/2001 | Duration 01:26:10 |
| T33a | Working at Porritts | Brian Lamb | 26/04/2001 | Duration 00:45:30 |
| T33b | Working at Porritts | Brian Lamb | 26/04/2001 | Duration 00:54:29 |
| T34 | Cyril Davenport | Duration 01:08:25 |
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| T35 | Working at Porritts Mill as a weaver | Mrs Marion Beech | may 2001 | Duration 00:03:14 |
| T36 | Worked in the paper industry | Edith Wood | Duration 00:45:33 | |
| T37a | Coronation and Childhood Memories | Mrs Doris Hibbert | 09/12/2002 | Duration 00:39:15 |
| T37d | Mrs Doris Hibbert | 05/03/2006 | Duration 00:06:48 | |
| T38 | General Memories from 1915 - 1947 | Edwin Longworth | 27/06/2001 | Duration 01:06:47 |
| T39 | WW2 and General Memories (NWSA) | Lorna McTintosh | 01/06/2001 | Duration 00:38:33 |
| 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 | Duration 00:47:23 Side 1 Duration 00:47:23 Side 2 Duration 00:29:30 |
| 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 | Duration 00:44:12 |
| T43 | Memories of Edenfield | Frank Woods | 30/06/2001 | Duration 00:25:24 |
| T44 | Reminiscences of Ramsbottom | Dorothy Moss | 30/06/2001 | Duration 00:21:54 |
| T45 | Childhood in Bolton, and Ramsbottom | John Maude | 30/06/2001 | Duration 00:26:50 |
| T46 | Ramsbottom Library Service | Bill Bennion | 23/07/2001 | Duration 01:02:35 |
| T47 | Childhood play, teenage leisure | Barbara Southern | 20/06/2006 | Duration 00:21:48 |
| T48 | Ships, Gas Mantles, Tippler's, Soundscape, 1950's | Eddy Chatwood | 20/06/2006 | Duration 00:07:05 |
| T49 | General memories including World War 1 and World War 2 | Violet Gregg | 23/06/2006 | Duration 00:41:041 |
| T50 | Father Ramsbottom Police Sgt., 1931-39; Amateur Dramatics (Summerseat Players) | Leslie Richard Norris | 05/03/2006 | Duration 01:02:21 |
| T51 | Recollections of Grant's Tower | Dorothy O'Reilly and Emily Bellenes | 05/03/2006 | Duration - 00:20:35 |
| 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 |