VIDEO & ORAL HISTORY Gallery
![Houses Street Scene 1900 Alston Mkt Plce](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Houses-street-scene-1900-Alston-mkt-plce-300x190.jpg)
Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour
Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and
![Charabanc Lady Margaret MM243](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Charabanc-Lady-Margaret-MM243-300x202.jpg)
Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs
Alston man charabanc clogs mine foundry eggs This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives
![Brick Collection PN 10](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brick-collection-PN-10-300x200.jpg)
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
![Brick Collection 9 1200px](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Brick-collection-9-1200px-300x200.jpg)
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
![Policeman At Box Close](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Policeman-at-box-close-220x300.jpg)
Dearham church school policeman
Dearham church school policeman This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated
![Church Inside](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Church-inside-300x283.jpg)
Distington ladies school church play
Distington ladies school church play This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was
![Christmas Party Group](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Christmas-party-group-300x183.jpg)
Distington lady Frankie Vaughan evacuation children rations street party
Distington lady Frankie Vaughan evacuation children rations street party This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by
![Clothes John E Tyson Tailors Advert 1912](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Clothes-John-E-Tyson-tailors-advert-1912-173x300.jpg)
Distington lady makes clothes starts shop
Distington lady makes clothes starts shop This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and
![Rural Workers](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Rural-workers-300x209.jpg)
Distington lady man Distington life
Distington lady man Distington life This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was
![Wartime Easy French For The Forces Soldier Biggs At The Train](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Wartime-Easy-French-for-the-Forces-Soldier-Biggs-at-the-train-300x228.jpg)
Distington lady school makes cover for war book for soldiers
Distington lady school makes cover for war book for soldiers This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned
![Swimming In Sea](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Swimming-in-sea-300x186.jpg)
Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine
Distington lady swim sea husband war POW TB lung out mine This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000
![Broughton Moor WW2 Munitions Building Emergency Sign](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Broughton-Moor-WW2-munitions-building-Emergency-sign-300x199.jpg)
Explosion at Broughton Moor munitions dump Video
Explosion at Broughton Moor Munitions Dump video Oral history by Cockermouth lady about her mother working at the munitions factory at the Royal Navy Armaments Depot,
![Home Guard With Weapons On Canal World War WW2](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Home-Guard-with-weapons-on-canal-World-War-WW2-300x300.jpg)
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 Capture German Parachutist World War WW2](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Home-Guard-capture-German-parachutist-World-War-WW2-300x224.jpg)
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
![Pawn Shop Church Street 1968 HF](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Pawn-Shop-Church-Street-1968-HF-300x188.jpg)
Kendal fever hospital lady ill boy beaten pawn shop
Kendal fever hospital lady ill boy beaten pawn shop This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by
![Mint Cake Shop](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Mint-cake-shop-189x300.jpg)
Kendal home shops old streets
Kendal home shops old streets This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was
![Farming Hay Raking Family](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Farming-hay-raking-family-300x179.jpg)
Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass
Kendal school farming living up Kirkstone Pass This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives
![Shop Butcher Fowl Hanging 1](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/shop-butcher-fowl-hanging-1-220x300.jpg)
Kendal school stink bomb butcher plucking hens
Kendal school stink bomb butcher plucking hens This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives
![Blue Box Theatre In Pieces Keswick](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Blue-Box-Theatre-in-pieces-Keswick-300x127.jpg)
Keswick Blue Box Theatre oral history video
Blue Box Theatre Keswick (became Theatre By The Lake) Keswick Blue Box Theatre oral history video 3:30 Illustrated oral history of the blue ex military
![Court Of Luxembourg Choir Pic 1957](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Court-of-Luxembourg-choir-pic-1957-300x171.jpg)
Keswick man car dance male voice choir
Keswick man car dance male voice choir This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives
![Railway Silloth](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Railway-Silloth-300x192.jpg)
Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure
Keswick Railway railway clerk parcels by train Beeching closure This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by
![Poppy Money Box 1](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Poppy-money-box-1-284x300.jpg)
Keswick Royal Legion Poppy munitions bowling
Keswick Royal Legion Poppy munitions bowling This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and
![Railway Silloth Station](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Railway-Silloth-station-300x227.jpg)
Keswick to Penrith Railway video
Keswick Railway oral history video Illustrated oral history of Keswick to Penrith railway Cumberland, now Cumbria In 1944 when this 16 years old applied to work on
![Prisoner Of War Identification Photo](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Prisoner-of-war-identification-photo-300x212.jpg)
Lorton lady ww2 driver husband POW drama farmer quotas
Lorton lady ww2 driver husband POW drama farmer quotas This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by
![Leisuretime Brass Band](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Leisuretime-brass-band-300x185.jpg)
Millom band
Millom band This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter
![Millom Haematite Smelter](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Millom-Haematite-smelter-226x300.jpg)
Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life
Millom museum sea walls Hodbarrow mine farming rural industrial life This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned
![Miners Picking At Mine](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Miners-picking-at-mine-215x300.jpg)
Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video
Mining and Minerals in Cumbria video Cumbria’s geology and mineral wealth has attracted mining for centuries and the landscape of the Lake District gives clues
![Servant in Service Millom](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Servant-in-Service-Millom-300x242.jpg)
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
![Bessemer Converter Science Museum](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Bessemer-converter-Science-Museum-300x199.jpg)
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.
![Army At War Arnhem Field Gun In Action](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Army-at-war-Arnhem-field-gun-in-action-300x180.jpg)
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,
![Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Army-at-war-Arnhem-mortar-about-to-fire-300x205.jpg)
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
![Army At War Arnhem The Photographers](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Army-at-war-Arnhem-The-Photographers-300x168.jpg)
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 navvy renovated Ray Hooley](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Steam-navvy-renovated-Ray-Hooley-198x300.jpg)
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 navvy from the deep boom emerging](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Steam-navvy-from-the-deep-boom-emerging-300x228.jpg)
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
![Iron And Steel Works Workington 00](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Iron-and-steel-works-Workington-00-300x244.jpg)
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 Aerial View](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Steel-works-aerial-view-234x300.jpg)
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
![Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lowca-Submarine-Daily-Mail-Sept-1-1915-painting-of-submarine-shelling-Lowca-300x180.jpg)
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
![Sir Tom loco train and the excavators Threlkeld Quarry](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir-Tom-loco-train-and-the-excavators-Threlkeld-Quarry-300x200.jpg)
Threlkeld Quarry steam train and excavators Photo Gallery
Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum and Vintage Excavator Trust Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust
![Excavators Threlkeld Quarry Blencathra behind](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Excavators-Threlkeld-Quarry-Blencathra-behind-300x200.jpg)
Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video
Vintage Excavators at Threlkeld Quarry Cumbria video Before the days of hydraulic excavators (leaky incontinent things!) rope excavators were the ingenious and robust diggers, lifters
![Lowca Huns Dastardly Deeds In War 1915](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Lowca-Huns-Dastardly-Deeds-in-war-1915-300x160.jpg)
Whitehaven lady born 1939 remembers ww1 German submarine shells Lowca Parton
Whitehaven lady born 1939 remembers ww1 German submarine shells Lowca Parton This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000
![Clogs Shop Great Sale](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Clogs-shop-great-sale-300x215.jpg)
Whitehaven lady clogs school big house
Whitehaven lady clogs school big house This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and
![Swimming In Sea MM3 P24](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Swimming-in-sea-MM3-p24-300x219.jpg)
Whitehaven lady swim sea confectioner home life
Whitehaven lady swim sea confectioner home life This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives
![Office Supervisor](https://thiswascumbria.uk/wp-content/uploads/Office-supervisor-213x300.jpg)
Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed
Whitehaven strict office rules toilet timed This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and