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.

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Jane Tesseyman

Born

June 1969 Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

Background

Grew up in County Durham then moved to Leeds, on to Rhodes, Greece and now lives in Yeadon

Date of Interview

17th September 2019 at Rufford Avenue

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Jane Tesseyman (23rd January 2021)  

This interview with Jane Tesseyman is full of interesting stories some of which are good memories and some which are definitely not.

Just to give you a flavour, Jane and Tess honeymooned in Egypt and were among the first British tourists back into the country after a terrorist attack so they spent their Nile cruise honeymoon surrounded by armed guards.

Listen to the ups and downs of living on the Greek island of Rhodes. A frank part of our chat was about bullying in adult life and the effect this has on mental health.

Jane had a varied career leading her to being a director of printing company Est Display Ltd. She also has tales about Formula One in Melbourne, bee keeping (British Black Bees) and of course running – something Jane is heavily involved in.

The interview never stops to inform and entertain.

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.
Andrew ‘Tess’ Tesseyman
00.40
Family Life
07.35
School Life – Computers
08.00 
University – Trinity & All Saints
11.05
Working Life – Rhodes, Greece
12.50
School Life
22.05
Bullying In Adult Life – Mental Health
23.45
Childhood
38.25
Working Life – Jobs
42.10
Repetitive Strain Injury
46.20
Twin Towers
50.50
Working Life – Printing
51.25
Formula One
53.10
Motorcycling
56.30
Camping
58.25
Running
58.55
Bee Keeping
1.04.45
Brexit
1.06.30

 

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