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Skills, Schools, Stories

stories

extracts from the All Work and No Play? oral history project

Original recordings, transcripts and images will be archived with Greater Manchester County Record Office and the North West Sound Archive.

Playing in the Street

Mildred Manford

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Mischief

Carmine Dimascio

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Leisure

Gladys Cook (nee Hankinson)

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School Visits

Mildred Manford

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Community

Gladys Cook

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Community

Arthur Wozencroft

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Work

Florence McGuinness

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Work

Cynthia Mangini

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Brother with new car; credit Gladys Cook

St Judes school interior 1952; credit C Mangini

Children on Woodward St; credit C Mangini

George Leigh St school 1930; credit G Cook

 

A selection of the archive has been published as a book: View an online version of the book.

 

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