1 10 3 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/0a6b64690f83fecf19adb8efb64c7b2c.mp3?Expires=1792022400&Signature=lvisXNII6QZ2%7EW8UKVpBuzRdruoQMzcXiCT5st41ADn3na87MHq81jz95cZa%7EG9Mf5ugVwzsjqReb8BcdGQ8zKr-lXDyyss%7EomBTz5Aikd6-j8M1Hmlj9CcSNs92M6ySHInum7-ZYC5-jyZ1J9CTFpqP4tMNegCFTZX7EjR-7eeIH-c272hcez3Hd8kRFMkHkxmR0WEyY%7EJ6xrm5t6cd4R3hwP6qFo7OTBJ9hqLYjaN6SmCyWNbgUlEWL4LC8gObfRABUqxph-WbCBHrTrjaOFzHJVHiJLvPpI7ptsK6CprSTVHwB20uYTy%7Emw5NYIAG1FaGnpfZjzLLiDfjc7MZ7g__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 1dc42451db86c6c043eb4656f5bc80e3 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/54780404a655dc3adb2b81e35d4c2820.jpg?Expires=1792022400&Signature=rnP7DgdE0QRZLfS84ehqvCQ68aluH4LJZep-CV2tOZiBTxPkNwAeFWTvqorvdMv4dUH7Ow6enWSsXner60rVAP1URZajd8hh85ZGCnGNyLXBugB9xYb1KblxTVns5Ts8P2%7ER9W8c0IIr9b3tjuqScRrG%7EtPwgDTyasMR1gDVVcCKoRpKgOcTKxqQYRIx6U9x2i2no4VzMUzkZKRRBgcJVs4j%7EAq5b55jNlnpqpQiJcu11a8Jh%7ELIhbY7aAcmmndEhdtEjtzd698wM4xA31kvJgGu9x0W6-NEQGnNg9FBOio1o-dfmAZwLOeXsH9YvJI46hlWSI4n1JJ1SxjWzfuYLw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 2c765371d9eee148d63a61994ed238fb Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Leicestershire & Rutland Sound Map Subject The topic of the resource Local history Description An account of the resource This map displays sounds and voices from places in Leicestershire & Rutland Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Special Collections Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections, EMOHA, UOSH Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights for online use have been cleared or have been assessed as low risk Type The nature or genre of the resource Various Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. J. Flawith Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Primrose Hall Location The location of the interview. Evington Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Do you remember any Americans in the area as well? They were posted on the… I think they had tents on the race course, and certainly at Shady Lane. But they used what is now the old swimming pool, it isn’t used, they boarded the floor over, you know, filled the pool in with boards, and I think that was their mess hall, and we used to have a village hall and they used to go there, and of course we’d got a cinema and they used to go in the cinema. We used to speak to them, I remember one used to give all the children, the little boys and girls, a ride round the village in his jeep…I don’t think they were here that long really, came somewhere from Italy to settle down, to go back on D-Day…Course we had the German prisoners here…a lot of them were very young, I mean some of them weren’t much older than us 15 year old children, you know. The same with the Americans, some of those were very young. I remember the one who worked on Oadby Lodge because the people there were friends of ours, my mother used to go up there a lot…and they used to spend a lot of their time cutting out, made marvellous tin toys out of a sardine tin, or a treacle tin. I’ve got a ship in a bottle that one made, gave to the family I suppose, but I’ve kept it. And they made wooden toys. I remember when they first came they camped on Shady Lane, because the Americans built the billets on Shady Lane, then they went and they started bringing the German prisoners over, and it was a regular Sunday evening walk to walk from Oadby to Shady Lane. I don’t know what I expected to see, you couldn’t see much anyway, but I can always remember their singing…it was really lovely. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1min 42sec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Shady Lane Subject The topic of the resource Shady Lane Description An account of the resource Primrose Hall recalls American soldiers and German Prisoners of War at Shady Lane in the 1940s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource East Midlands Oral History Archive Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived EMOHA Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available EMOHA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use item in accordance with the licence <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/" target="_blank" title="Licence" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Photograph courtesy of Evington Local History and Heritage Group. To use seek permission from chris_hossack@yahoo.co.uk Evington Oadby and Wigston Shady Lane WWII https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/35997f3769931ecbadcaf8a0604ef173.jpeg?Expires=1792022400&Signature=iSsuMb5YYO3WZI7jN3-bluv921NjBdVHrM3hvPTqphwoeUjPHaKpGEsrINHRVHgyDsfW5ZP86bZY1wOGDngqPeqUIV5quYt0DPHPxKs9ZW4G-n-czAjREsj%7E7aE1LpDFEaojtRN4Hs7iXmRVexJ4No5eRl9IPKJTnZyQNCa5tt5kmb-sNMfp7aipGzzLB%7E4kzbX38Kij5TN5ou0DesVCS2aP12A2dD30Fo3shorJIJMP66OoPr3KERFMBUsjaxiAUv4V6f47LZMBvCjRUKbPdaZEfmy0%7EorgfAKcwma-9sOt-S%7ERA4Xh%7ED2bxpRJcNOJNGnwS%7ELBXM6gWtHl1M0ccw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 9a147b1e3daedd5349378d16aa1fa808 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/8e32541f82fe15c39e77dcb3ce72f2a8.mp3?Expires=1792022400&Signature=VGzaf9arp5oY5pTGgmSKXqeerMBssdTyfV0Q4htJJ3FaGs6mslMGM754wSt8Ojbh3c1m-zV6LI7dCCGvP4c7QWUmhOQ92v8yprOkBYKXNmUsSi9NDegAvCF7ky8GWksZQLwjlXfhfs-lgA3WeiGEmp2V0ddkX4KlZvfl-sLPidaKyBC7YZTaPyvlRpks2P4TJd8BhMWqFysj%7EMxnQPwxG67cx57Sy0ZDhXS8gHMxU0AXr1DSBselhGfuIImsajqqnOpkyavBstRY5hiSO-paXRSOTlqePSmtZbHOWLOAByQ9Ny2wV6RugU4G-oyGsKTvarfrQTVIU4ftCG0V%7EIl0Qg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 6ed0eb27ade2ce32cb1a281936e046d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Leicestershire & Rutland Sound Map Subject The topic of the resource Local history Description An account of the resource This map displays sounds and voices from places in Leicestershire & Rutland Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Special Collections Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections, EMOHA, UOSH Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights for online use have been cleared or have been assessed as low risk Type The nature or genre of the resource Various Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. J. Carswell Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Hilda Sykes Location The location of the interview. South Wigston Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Mrs Sykes: And that was the Church of Christ Baptist church, or chapels then, in Canal Street, South Wigston. Well, everyone in my, well all my friends had to go to a place of worship, albeit what it was. Interviewer: Did it make any difference to your friendships as to which church they went to? Mrs Sykes: Oh yes. On Sunday my mother would say to us as young children, say seven onwards, don’t talk to that so-and-so, she goes to the Methodists. You weren’t allowed to talk on Sunday outside to anybody that didn’t go to your church. Your church was the church. But it was more or less like a class distinction. The Baptists stood by the Baptists, and each chapel, there was the Congregational, the Methodist, the Weslyan, St Thomas’ Church of England, and then right away over the village - it was a village albeit it was a very big one and an advanced one – was the Roman Catholic church of which of course we knew absolutely and utterly nothing. I myself, at 16 years old automatically went to the bible class, and from the bible class we automatically became Sunday School teachers. That was quite a recognised thing. And we feared God; we had a real, we had a real respect for everything I think in those days. Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2min 8sec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Church of Christ Subject The topic of the resource Church of Christ Description An account of the resource Hilda Sykes recalls childhood attendance at a Baptist church in South Wigston during the 1920s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource East Midland Oral History Archive Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived EMOHA Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available EMOHA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this item in accordance with the licence <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/" target="_blank" title="Licence" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Photograph courtesy of Wigston in Photos. To use seek permission from paulgraceroad@talktalk.net. Church Oadby and Wigston South Wigston https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/f487351f7e158d879925716ad0e2212c.jpg?Expires=1792022400&Signature=Iit2pr4BM8ZV%7EmEtxrlW%7EWwLR6UOtAW-SkAfZOOT8iDl8P6BGHKQI03ceKcwCIxAdHJlMKr3VKOnDF6MAyMaJ%7Epsuh7JHPsjtTB4OsD0t1DrLZVjebFm%7EtrriDt46VxjgO4llxTVCpVi-OD-t2Re80nc1U5mYzhkhaIRk-ijwveJeSnieHBbRlcQdKn2KQadHMHEhtb%7EhmRuRBz1%7EQFbumjOYVDcqrqYApHDUryQLbp8sbBfNuxvp7c-S-oMrXFiBCZtB7nYBEuExSBHADKLuhFfYYeabuH2hUuN7pXAjFToQhPzb3F8n3s4G3s35MB9OcEYAXSZnC4Doc9Nj%7Egsag__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 4196a2e3710c1c0bfe7a54116b1599d2 https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/13142/archive/files/40e5cbda3a281b55a14193745d906165.mp3?Expires=1792022400&Signature=QWenUnMEw-qXv0ISgBd%7EvfWV8%7E5JFyiWxgE5ZN5CSpRjUdXXAGYWS-dvwuXFpJwopcu1u%7EW4gPYlSKWS6Ast5Luq2UVKiJOIwVwNYw8TO3jxmjSMeuqlxOVoZ7MF6fFX5SFKvNM7wQnx8ifF2V73uq6JD5UAXmNJilKw-Yo1R4qSi6orVjpb-3Eln0E5TY11nU43h61pu-Gll3fmPDx5-Lgr8YJ63vR%7Ew%7EnSXvCf09xq1K5HY-PSuKDVgrkqyadQBD6eV5lGYe63TZjhC3HgJs%7EWQ5ykBbUOSABULG6XyqizKwJVtnLgJIoWUoNQIKVR9FwNiu8vhJOIPBWp7JSMZg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 8fc713a7b4a6f6f1596604659e80589d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Leicestershire & Rutland Sound Map Subject The topic of the resource Local history Description An account of the resource This map displays sounds and voices from places in Leicestershire & Rutland Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Special Collections Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections, EMOHA, UOSH Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 2020 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Various Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Rights for online use have been cleared or have been assessed as low risk Type The nature or genre of the resource Various Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Interviewer The person(s) performing the interview. V. Faragher Interviewee The person(s) being interviewed. Joyce Higgins Location The location of the interview. Wigston Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound. Oh yes it’s well known for the hosiery in Wigston…when I went to work at Holmes’… you had to start at 8 o’clock, half past twelve it was dinner time and then we worked until 6 o’clock at night… when I first started I shall always remember my mum sent me to work in my gym tunic and my black stockings from school and I got to work and there was me in this gym tunic, my black stockings and my school shoes and they’d all got their frocks on and I felt really, you know, really out of it…anyway, ever so nice the foreman and he took me round and told me who all the people were like and what I’d be doing. He says ‘you’ll be doing this for the first six months then when you’re not doing the errands’, he says, ‘we’ll give you a bit of splicing to do.’ They used to make ladies’ stockings with Cuban heels, not tights or stockings and the Cuban heels had like pieces of nylon thread going across and you had to cut this thread as near to the seam on the Cuban heel as possible without cutting the stocking. That’s what you did in between fetching, doing errands and fetching cottons and things. You had to do that for six months. ‘After six months’, he said, ‘we ask you what machine you’d like to go on’ and he took me round and showed me the machines. There was toe stitching, overlocking, welting, seaming and linking, you see and then ‘after you’ve been there a bit’ he said, ‘we’ll ask you which machine you’d like to learn.’ Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 1min 33sec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Holmes Hosiery Factory Subject The topic of the resource Higgins Hosiery Description An account of the resource Joyce Higgins describes working in a hosiery factory in Wigston in the 1940s. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource East Midland Oral History Archive Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived EMOHA Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available EMOHA Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You may use this item in accordance with the licence <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/" target="_blank" title="Licence" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://creativecommons.org/licences/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource .mp3 Type The nature or genre of the resource Oral History Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Photograph courtesy of Wigston Civic Society. To use seek permission from <a href="http://www.wigstoncivicsociety.org.uk/" target="_blank" title="Permission" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.wigstoncivicsociety.org.uk/</a> Hosiery Oadby and Wigston Wigston