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  • Oral history audio recording of Elna Ball.

    WAI/009
    Oral history audio recording of Elna Ball.
    Interview about Welsh traditions and objects.
  • Oral history audio recording of Laura Church (1994).

    WAI/008
    Oral history audio recording of Laura Church (1994).
    Interview about Christmas traditions and a silver charm bracelet.
  • Laura Church

    WAI/008/001
    Laura Church
    Laura Church explains that in her family they all sit down to a family dinner at Christmas. She describes a silver charm bracelet that was given to her by her Nan.
  • Susan Rebecca Rogers

    WAI/007/001
    Susan Rebecca Rogers
    Sue Rogers talks about not being happy to move to Milton Keynes. She describes her grandparents 50th wedding anniversary photograph which is in a golden frame.
  • Oral history audio recording of Susan Rebecca Rogers (1971).

    WAI/007
    Oral history audio recording of Susan Rebecca Rogers (1971).
    Interview about a 50th wedding anniversary photograph.
  • Oral history audio recording of Shahnaz Rahman.

    WAI/006
    Oral history audio recording of Shahnaz Rahman.
    Interview about Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi culture and customs.
  • Shahnaz Rahman

    WAI/006/001
    Shahnaz Rahman
    Shanaz Reman describes growing up in Bangladesh and the fact that most people live in villages, on farms producing their own crops and making their own clothes. She explains what a sari is and tells of how the women make them themselves with intricate patterns. She says that her heritage is very important to her ...
  • Robert Westrupp and Kerry Holland

    WAI/005/001
    Robert Westrupp and Kerry Holland
    Robert Westrupp talks about not wanting to move to Milton Keynes and about his family traditions of Sunday lunch and Christmas. Kerry Holland talks about some of the changes in Milton Keynes and her family traditions. Robert talks about the silver dog from the front of a car that had been passed down from his ...
  • Oral history audio recording of Robert Westrupp and Kerry Holland.

    WAI/005
    Oral history audio recording of Robert Westrupp and Kerry Holland.
    Interview about family traditions and a special object.
  • Brian Alan Best, Barbara and Sean

    WAI/004/001
    Brian Alan Best, Barbara and Sean
    Brian Best lived in the area before Milton Keynes and recalls the changes from country to city. He describes the family Christmas tradition of having an extra Christmas present put inside a snowman that they opened at tea time. Talks extensively about his boyhood activities living in the countryside. Barbara recalls life as a child ...
  • Oral history audio recording of Brian Alan Best, Barbara and Sean.

    WAI/004
    Oral history audio recording of Brian Alan Best, Barbara and Sean.
    Interview about childhood in local area family traditions and objects special to him.
  • Aneesa Munawar

    WAI/003/001
    Aneesa Munawar
    Aneesa Munawar talks about school, after school clubs being a Muslim wearing a headscarf and observing Ramadan. She describes a gold necklace passed on to her from her grandfather and how it has been passed down and he will pass it on to her descendants.
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