I am very pleased to say that the West Yorkshire Archive service have accepted the Back-Chat Collection interviews into their permanent archives thus ensuring their accessibility to the public for many generations to come.

You can hear this interview by simply clicking the West Yorkshire Archive Link where you will find all of the Back-Chat Collection interviews listed in alphabetical order along with captioned photographs.

If you would like to contact The Back-Chat Collection please do email me at carloharrison1947@gmail.com.

To listen to the interviews which are now hosted on the
West Yorkshire Archive Service click here.

Christine (Hathaway) Phillips

Born

November 1955 at St Marys Hospital, Armley.

Background

Grew up and lives in Yeadon

Date of Interview

18th October 2019

“Yes of course you can use my interview and photos on the Back-Chat Website”

Christine (Hathaway) Phillips – (18th March 2021)

Christine Phillips has so much going on in her life this interview takes you in all sorts of directions.

Here’s just a taster of things we talk about – being adopted by wonderful parents and finding her birth mother many years later. Working in a petrol station when it was robbed; working in a haunted hotel; wearing her mortgage payment (fur coat); Pauline’s Dance School in Yeadon; karate in Greenacre Hall in Rawdon; Crag Wood Church; Catholicism and being a veterinary nurse.

Hear how Christine manages the complex condition of fibromyalgia – she is a strong lady!

She tells us why she voted to leave Europe and her views on Brexit. This interview is full of entertainment and life.

Interviewer: Carlo Harrison

Cataloguer: Fiona Quinton

Sound Engineer David Myers


HTML5 Audio Player

You can listen to the entire recording by clicking the start arrow or, you can move the slider to one of times shown for the headings opposite, they are a guide to the many things we chatted about.
Family Life – Adoption
01.25
Adopted Parents – Charles & Ann Hathaway
10.35
Boysie Youth Club
11.20
Horsforth Youth Club – Charles Hathaway
14.35
Pauline – Dance School
16.00
Karate – Greenacre Hall
17.15
Crag Wood Church
20.15
Catholicism
22.35
Early Married life
24.00
Fur Coats
25.45
South View School
28.25
St Peter & Pauls School
32.05
Early Life
35.20
Office Junior Green Lane Dyeworks
38.10
Ghosts
44.55
Robbery – Petrol Station
46.40
Working Life – Vet Nurse
50.40
Calligraphy – Rock Painting – Walking
51.30
Health Issues – Fibromyalgia
55.40
Brexit
1.02.10

 

Please take into consideration when listening to these interviews that the meaning of language changes over time and that interviewees have not intended to cause offence by anything said which now may be thought to be unacceptable.

Recording this social history, chatting to different people about a whole host of subjects has been a real pleasure, such an interesting and I think worthwhile project for people to listen to both now and in years to come.

Thank you for visiting this website.

Carlo Harrison