Brighouse Baby Boomers: Audio Files
Below are a selection of audio files whereby you can listen to each participant of our heritage project share their individual memories.
Elizabeth - Dear Pat
Elizabeth - Steet Party with the gang
Margaret - Easter Sunday New Outfits
Helen - The nearest I could get to being an actor
Nobuo - I saw stars
Jennie - Marmite to Mustard
Jennie - Art and Drama in Jamaica
Helen - boys got a better deal than girls
Margaret - TV for the coronation
Elizabeth - Smoke pollution
Margaret - Temporary Polish Camp
Helen - Everyone went to school with a Peggy Purse
Elizabeth - Dear Gang
Margaret - We sat on your precious Ford Anglia
Helen - 'I still have that tent'
Helen - I've returned 40 years later to West-Yorkshire
Nobuo - We lost, we always lost
Jennie - School Leavers Cyprus
Margaret - Enid Blyton books
Elizabeth - Secret 7 Society
Elizabeth - All the clouds of coal dust
Nobuo - Seeing The Beatles in Tokyo
Sue - Blakeborough Tower Explosions, end of a Brighouse era
Cleckheaton - A mile up the road would feel like a different country
Elizabeth - Street Party
Margaret - Golden Cross Pram
Helen - I've always loved the rain
Nobuo - You fell into the pond full of cray fish
Jennie - League of Pity NSPCC
Jennie - San Sebastian Bull Fight
Margaret - Daffodil school prize
Nobuo - Reading 'Noddy' at age 12
Elizabeth - Rural Brighouse
Margaret - Rationed Chocolate
Helen - With a Halfpenny you could buy loads
Brighouse Children's Theatre - Remembering Brian Blessed and Patrick Stewart
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