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- Affective Digital Histories
- Arqueotex collection
- BBC Radio Leicester Archive
- Belgrave Memories
- British United People
- Calver Weir Archive
- The Clive Harrison collection
- The David Wood Collection
- Dunton Bassett Local History Society Collection
- The Earle Robinson collection
- em: source collection
- The EMOHA collection
- Ethnic Elders collection
- Evacuees collection
- Fox Hunting collection
- Guru Nanak Sikh collection
- Leicester City Museums collection
- Leicester Community History collection
- Leicestershire Regiment collection
- Leicester Oral History Archive collection
- Mantle Oral History collection
- Harborough Museum collection
- Maurice Ennals collection
- Mines of Memory Collection
- Natural Heroes
- Poshak Puralekh
- The Rhianydd Murray collection
- Saffron Past and Present collection
- Semper Eadem collection
- Taking Part collection
- Talking about Technology collection
- Textile Tales
- Thornton collection
- Tracking our Heritage
- Walnut Street collection
- Wathes collection
- Westfield Hinckley collection
East Midlands Oral History Archive
Wathes collection
Physical detail
- Number of items in the collection: 10
- Venues where the material can be listened to: Record Office, digitised copies of interviews available to listen to at EMOHA
- Media available on: CD, digital files
Collection history
The Wathes Collection comprises 10 interviews. The interviews were commissioned by Wathes to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the company T. H. Wathes and Co Ltd in 1903. The interviews were conducted by the East Midlands Oral History Archive and a booklet was produced entitled 'A Century of Service'. The collection was deposited with the EMOHA in March 2004.
What the collection contains
TH Wathes was an electrical engineering company at its inception in 1903, branched into refrigeration in the 1920s, although probably best remembered as a High Street retailer of electrical goods. The interviews in this collection were conducted with current and former employees of the company and mainly cover the period 1935 to 1972, with two interviews focusing on recent developments. Subjects include: apprenticeship with the company; work in electrical engineering and refrigeration; the company and its ownership during this period, T.H. and H.S. Wathes; changes in work culture after World War Two.