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.

Andy Briggs

Born

October 1953 in the Swaine Green Tavern, Bradford

Background

Grew up in Bradford, Guiseley and Yeadon. Interviewed at his home in Yeadon

Date of Interview

25th October 2019

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Andy Briggs (5th July 2020)

If you want to know what an action-packed full life sounds like just listen to this interview with Andy Briggs. He was born in a Bradford pub, grew up in Bradford, Guiseley and Yeadon and has a passion for Tibetan Mastiffs!

Andy is a family man and an accomplished landscape gardener. You must hear the story about when the phone rang and it was Emmerdale Farm on the other end!

A lively interview with a very nice man.

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 / Birth, Bradford
00.35
Family History, Bingley
05.10
House Rebuilding
17.01 
Mecca Nightclub, Bradford
19.00
Honeymoon, Blackpool
20.50
School Days, Westfield School, St Bede’s
21.40
England Football Team, Leeds Bradford Airport
25.05
Tibetan Mastiffs
28.10
Working Life, Dye Works, Plumbing, Shipping Clerk, Landscaping
43.35
Emmerdale TV Programme, Esholt
46.25
Brexit
51.12

 

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