
Royal Voluntary Service
ORAL HISTORY
Here is a selection of edited audio clips from some of our oral history interviews. These have been conducted with various residents and other individuals so far within the project where they live. Whilst the overall theme is of ‘work’ within the borough the individuals taking part are encouraged to freely talk about any related memories or anecdotes that they feel are of importance to them and which others might also find of interest.
Kind thanks to all of those who gave their time to talk to us.
The participants contributing within these audio clips are:
David Luff (Colliers Wood), Zigi Sinnette, Jim Goddard, Sandra Hall, Norman Walmsley (Glebe Court), Ian Veacock, Joyce Veacock, Loraine O’Halloran, Frank Starkey, Vera Starkey, Helen McNamara (High Path), Mark Pickett (Watermeads), Lillian Long (Mary Tate Almshouses), Brenda Josiah (Phipps Bridge), Arthur Brice, Wade Brice (New Close), Doreen Rigsby, Madeleine Heale, Ted Bates (Morden), Irene Burroughs (Mitcham), Lillian Long (Mary Tate Cottages, Cricket Green).
Explore the recordings below to hear people’s spoken history and recollections from years gone by.
Working at the Liberty Print Works in the 1950s & 1960s

David Luff
Colliers Wood
Historic Records of the Wandle Valley

Unknown Contributor
Wandle Valley
The Life of a Working Woman in the early 20th Century

Unknown Contributor
Mitcham's Belt of Factories

Unknown Contributor
Family connections to Old Industries

Ian Veacock,
Joyce Veacock,
Loraine O’Halloran
High Path
The workers community at The Liberty Works

Unknown Contributor
How Wimbledon and Micham have Changed Over The Years

Unknown Contributor
Gilliat Hatfeild

Brenda Josiah
Phipps Bridge
Van Driver at Renshaw's 1936

Arthur Brice
New Close
Printing

Frank Starkey
High Path
New Home on the Edge of Urbanisation 1934

Doreen Rigsby
Morden
Mother's Job as a Seamstress & Royalty

Irene Burroughs
Mitcham
Corfield’s Saucepans & Artificial Legs

Helen McNamara
High Path
Recollections of the Family's Trades

Joyce Veacock
High Path
First Job as a Cobbler

Jim Goddard
Glebe Court
Growing Up in Mitcham

Lorraine O'Halloran & Ian Veacock
High Path
Working & Living in Mitcham

Lillian Long
Mary Tate Cottages, Cricket Green
Lost Industries

Sandra Hall
Glebe Court
Memories of the Farm

Madeleine Healey
Morden
Very Local Jobs

Vera Starkey
High Path
Palmers Iron Foundry

Ted Bates at Palmers
Morden Road
Factory Explosion & Redskin Village

Wade Brice
New Close
Downs Surgical Instruments

Wade Brice
New Close