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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
Westfield Hinckley collection
Physical details
- Number of Items in the collection: 18
- Venues where material can be listened to: Record Office, digitised interviews available to listen to at EMOHA
- Media available on: CD, digital files
Collection history
The Westfield collection comprises 20 interviews with people from the Hinckley area. The interviews were part of a project undertaken by the Westfield Stroke Club, and the Wednesday morning drop-in group. A few interviews were conducted by Hinckley College students. The collection became part of the EMOHA in 2001.
What the collection contains
The interviews in this collection document the lives and experiences of people from the Hinckley, Burbage and Barwell areas. Memories and events are recalled from the beginning of the 20th century up to and including World War Two. Of particular note is material describing the many different aspects of working in the hosiery industry. The collection also holds an interview by the wife of an army soldier who recalls travelling around the world prior to 1914. Several people who grew up in other areas, before moving to Hinckley for work, also record their lives and experiences, including a Londoner who describes hop picking in Kent.