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.

Ian Wray

Born

April 1962 in Horsforth

Background

Grew up in Yeadon and now lives in Becketts Park, Leeds

Date of Interview

25th February 2020

“I would be happy to be included in your back chat website, so please go ahead.

I will look forward to seeing the page.”

Ian Wray (31st August 2020)

You have to say that Ian Wray is a hardworking man who puts as much effort into his work as he does into his hobbies – all of them have to be done right, or not done at all. He has not had an easy life – at times there were some ups and downs – but listen to his story and Ian shows that there is a path through tough times. He was an armed police officer which is not a job for the faint hearted. Motorsports, martial arts, mountaineering and photography help to complete Ian’s fascinating interview.

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.
Elderly Parent with Parkinson’s (care home)
2.32
Family Life
11.25
Wet Fish Shop (Yeadon)
16.12
Tates Shop & High Street Shops
17.25
Engineering, Climbing, Photography
21.20
Childhood
26.14
Rawdon Littlemoor & Benton Park Schools
27.09
Cancer
30.51
Death of Daughter
33.44
Marriage Breakup & Remarriage
37.05
Working Life, GPO & Police
39.22
Armed Police
48.01
Mountaineering
52.19
Motorsports
59.04
Brexit
1.02.23
Global Warming
1.05.10
Coronavirus
1.05.52
Flooding
1.07.41

 

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