VIDEO & ORAL HISTORY Gallery

Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour
Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour https://youtu.be/nPZ0kloaiqs This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives

Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs
Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs https://youtu.be/8CfKxCU2Tyk This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria

Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 video
Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 The buildings for Cumbria’s industry were built with bricks without which Cumbria’s mineral wealth would

Bricks of Cumbria
Brick collection from quarries and mines in Cumbria from 1850 This collection of bricks varies from the hand made with finger marks, to engineered bricks

Dearham church school policeman
Dearham church school policeman https://youtu.be/_ZbcVkSlM74 This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was

Distington ladies school church play
Distington ladies school church play https://youtu.be/6uLNYEB6H1s This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and

Distington lady Frankie Vaughan evacuation children rations street party
Distington lady Frankie Vaughan evacuation children rations street party https://youtu.be/vaj-I15UMCc This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned

Distington lady makes clothes starts shop
Distington lady makes clothes starts shop https://youtu.be/gziJW20Dzjo This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives

Distington lady man Distington life
Distington lady man Distington life https://youtu.be/TvVB1emA02o This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and

Distington lady school makes cover for war book for soldiers
Distington lady school makes cover for war book for soldiers https://youtu.be/jAvL7kwmuVQ This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000

Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine
Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine https://youtu.be/82pmvfrwGtU This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in

Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump in wartime Photo Gallery
Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump in wartime Explosion at Munitions Factory!Explosion at Broughton Moor amunition works in WW2Oral history mini filmExplosive chemicalsThe danger of

Explosion at Broughton Moor munitions dump Video
Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump Oral history by Cockermouth lady about her mother working at the munitions factory at the Royal Navy Armaments Depot, locally

Home Guard Westmorland shot pig oral history video
Oral history Home Guard & WW2 Levens Bridge Westmorland oral history video Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is of

Home Guard Westmorland silent video
Home Guard Westmorland silent video Silent video from home movie taken during World War 2 in Westmorland (now part of Cumbria). Home Guard practice using

Kendal fever hospital lady ill boy beaten pawn shop
Kendal fever hospital lady ill boy beaten pawn shop https://youtu.be/6wVGToCwiqY This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned

Kendal home shops old streets
Kendal home shops old streets https://youtu.be/etuUIJswukI This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and

Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass
Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass https://youtu.be/RSeBKuUFMJA This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria

Kendal school stink bomb butcher plucking hens
Kendal school stink bomb butcher plucking hens https://youtu.be/2qj1jaF9PFY This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria

Keswick Blue Box Theatre oral history video
Blue Box Theatre Keswick (became Theatre By The Lake) Illustrated oral history of the blue ex military mobile trailers that were converted to a theatre

Keswick man car dance male voice choir
Keswick man car dance male voice choir https://youtu.be/pCqBoshkHdM This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria

Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure
Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure https://youtu.be/CfhPgZql728 This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned

Keswick Royal Legion Poppy munitions bowling
Keswick Royal Legion Poppy munitions bowling https://youtu.be/0X3m5xac-BY This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives

Keswick to Penrith Railway video
Keswick Railway oral history video In 1944 when this 16 years old applied to work on the Keswick to Penrith railway. The train was the

Lorton lady ww2 driver husband POW drama farmer quotas
Lorton lady ww2 driver husband POW drama farmer quotas https://youtu.be/dIoaVkkV1Bk This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned

Millom band
Millom band https://youtu.be/Wo-xs681Cpg This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by

Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life
Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life https://youtu.be/AJ4NTVf9ZOU This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000

Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video
Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video https://youtu.be/IbBqdtFQcl4 Cumbria’s geology and mineral wealth has attracted mining for centuries and the landscape of the Lake District gives

Servant in Service before the World Wars oral history video
MY LIFE AT HOME AND MY WORK AS A SERVANT A lady explains how life was for her as a child at home. She explains

Sir Henry Bessemer a Tribute for Steel & Rail at Workington Cumbria Video
Workington Steel & Rail from Bessemer’s Convertor Sir Henry Bessemer A Tribute to the Inventor Sir Henry Bessemer was a prolific inventor born in 1813.

Soldier at war Algiers Rommel Italy oral history video
Soldier at war Algiers Rommel Italy oral history video Started in Home Guard, guarding Thirlmere lake, one rifle one bullet for 2 nights a week,

Soldier describes D Day Arnhem The Kings Regiment war oral history video
Soldier describes D Day Arnhem in The Kings Regiment video Ambleside Oral history group record a WW2 soldier’s life from Kings Regiment Formby to Arnhem

Soldiers describe D Day Arnhem Africa Italy three oral history videos
Soldiers describe D Day Arnhem Africa Italy three oral history videos First soldier: Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is

Steam Digger Excavator working at Threlkeld Quarry video
Steam Digger excavator Hooley working at Threlkeld Quarry Video of steam digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Ray Hooley organised volunteers to recover it from the

Steam Digger From The Deep video
Steam Digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video Video of steam digger working at Threlkeld Quarry Ray Hooley organised volunteers to recover it from the

Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria video
Steel Making by Bessemer Convertor at Workington Cumbria Sir Henry Bessemer created a new process for making steel and his earliest Bessemser Converters were sited

Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video
Steel Works rail rolling line in Workington video Workington produced steel for 125 years culminating in Corus creating annually enough rail to run from Workington

Submarine shells Whitehaven West Cumbria
Submarine shells Whitehaven Cumberland (West Cumbria) 1915 The Latest in Germ-Hun frightfulness” Newspaper reports:“A German submarine fired several shells at Parton Harrington and Whitehaven on

Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video
Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video https://youtu.be/X_GRsluJunQ Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers,

Whitehaven lady born 1939 remembers ww1 German submarine shells Lowca Parton
Whitehaven lady born 1939 remembers ww1 German submarine shells Lowca Parton https://youtu.be/ZUZfXQ0jzPM This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in

Whitehaven lady clogs school big house
Whitehaven lady clogs school big house https://youtu.be/67mUW2UKE10 This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives

Whitehaven lady swim sea confectioner home life
Whitehaven lady swim sea confectioner home life https://youtu.be/urO7EcO2b8E This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria

Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed
Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed https://youtu.be/_KdWlX7cZcQ This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives