Audio Resources
You can browse through the audio resources below.
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train journey sounds_01
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
ambient recordings from Liverpool To Manchester train journey... Read more
Categorised under: Sounds & Ambience
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Tannoy announcements of the train from Liverpool to Manchester Airport
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Announcements on the Liverpool to Manchester train... Read more
Categorised under: Sounds & Ambience
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Frances Green talks about Crawfords biscuit factory
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Frances Green talks about the demolition process in 1953/4 when Crawford’s Biscuit Factory took over the streets around Binns Road. Also during the war when sweets were rare she remembers the girls in the chocolate room throwing chocolate out the windows to the children below and begging for biscuits on Tuesdays and Thursdays outside the gates to the factory. Frances talks about how busy Edge Lane would be of an... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Frances Green mentions how her aunt worked at the Automatic alongside Ted Ray and Arthur Askey
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Frances Green remembers The Automatic were they made electrical components, during the war they helped with the war effort. Ted Ray and Arthur Askey, well known Liverpool comics, both worked at the Automatic with Frances’s Aunt. Frances’s uncle also worked there but then got into the Post Office which was a cut above The Automatic and meant you were established.... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry, The War
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Ed Darcy Hatton talks about his uncles, who worked as porters at Edge Hill
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Ed Darcy Hatton remembers two of his Uncles worked at the station during the 50’s and 60’s, Uncle Alfred and Uncle Frank. Frank worked on the horse and cart delivering coal to Edge Hill from the Crown Street depot and vice versa.... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Work & Industry
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Ed Darcy Hatton mentions his great grandfather, a station master at Edge Hill
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Ed Darcy Hatton talks about his Great Grandfather, Thomas Devine Mooney, who was Station Master at Edge Hill Station. His brother James also worked at the station as a porter for a short while but went on to marry May Vine whose family were well known Liverpool hoteliers and owned the Vines Pub next to the Adelphi Hotel... Read more
Categorised under: The Station & Railway Pioneers, Work & Industry
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Alan Hay talks about the “blood tub”
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Alan Hay remembers ‘the blood tub’ that came up from Crown St to the marshalling yards at Edge Hill, and how the men would run alongside the moving trucks and push a brake stick into the wheels and then jump onto it and ride along to slow them down, a very dangerous practice... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Alan Hay remembers the terrifying head chef at the Adelphi Hotel
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Alan Hay remembers working at the Adelphi Hotel which was owned by the railway, cleaning the ovens out and recounts an incident with the notorious head chef in the kitchens which he likens to Dante’s Inferno... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Alan Hay remembers sending signals using Morse code
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Alan Hay talks about his first job and his memories of Liverpool telegraph office and sending morse code messages to all the stations along the Ormskirk line... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Alan Hay remembers working in the telegraph office at the age of 16
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Alan Hay remembers his first job at the telegraph office when he was 16... Read more
Categorised under: Work & Industry
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Chris Markham recalls the bombing of the station during the Second World War
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Chris Markham remembers the blitz and the bombs dropping in the area targeting the station and the marshalling yard. His home had the roof and front door blown off and he remembers hiding under the table in fear... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Chris Markham remembers soldiers marching up and down Tunnel Road
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Chris Markham remembers watching the soilders marching up and down Tunnel Rd, going off to war from Edge Hill Station and returning to go straight across the road to the Tunnel Hotel were they would meet ladies of a ‘certain choosing’... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Chris Markham remembers an camp for Italian POWs in Huyton
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Chris Markham talks about the Italian prisoners of war from a camp in Huyton who used to work at Edge Hill station towards the end of the war.... Read more
Categorised under: The War
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Margeret recalls street parties to celebrate New Year’s Day
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Margret remembers the community spirit of the old days, celebrating New Year on the streets of Kensington and all the dance halls in the vicinity... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Barbara Galt recalls the social life of Edge Hill
Resource Type: Audio | Posted on 20th January 2011 | 0 Comments
Barbara Galt remembers the social life in the Edge Hill and Kensington areas during her youth... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Alicia Rose talks of her passion for music
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Alicia Rose an Edge Hill resident chats about her experience of living in Liverpool... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Alan Hay gives some background information about the Edge Hill Brass Band
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Alan Hay talks about the Edge Hill Railway Brass Band... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Alan Hay talks of his time in the Edge Hill Brass Band
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Alan Hay talks about the Edge Hill Brass Band who were well known and won the British Championship a number of times... Read more
Categorised under: Social Life
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Lucy Halligan remembers the sadly now-demolished ice rink and associated coffee bars
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Lucy Halligan remembers the ice rink in Kensington and the coffee bars were people would meet up.... Read more
Categorised under: Change & Communities, Shops & Shopping
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Frances Green recalls buying peanut butter as a girl
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Frances Green remembers a shop off Binns Rd called Fleets, were during the war she would buy her favourite treat peanut butter on a square of newspaper.... Read more
Categorised under: Shops & Shopping, The War
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