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.

Elaine O’Brien

Born

July 1956 at Hyde Terrace Maternity Hospital in Leeds.

Background

Grew up in Meanwood, lived in Horsforth, Rawdon and now lives in Yeadon

Date of Interview

1st November 2019

I am happy for you to put the interview on the website

Elaine O’Brien (8th May 2021)

It was a real pleasure to interview Elaine and hear about her role as a voluntary fund raiser for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. I certainly learnt a lot about the Yorkshire Air Ambulance and what a dedicated service it is, saving lives from the very, very young to the not so young.

Elaine also talked about a wide range of subjects including tailoring, pensions, community nursing, Airbnb, the Commoners Choir and we met Peanut a Lhasa Apso and Chesney who is ‘a very soft cat’
A nice easy listening chat.

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.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
01.00
Family Wool Shop & Tailoring
13.50
Pensions
15.55
Wedding At Barden Towers
20.30
Halloween
23.30
Abbey Grange School
27.10
Residential Nursery
27.50
Schofields Dept. Store and Lloyds Bank (Leeds)
32.00
Nursing
35.20
Maternity Leave
44.10
Community Nursing
45.20
Airbnb
53.20
Walking, Zumba, Jive Dancing
55.45
Commoners’ Choir
57.25
Prostrate Cancer – Treatment
1.00.20
Brexit
1.05.50

 

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