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child with father during the war
Acknowledgements

Thanks to The Heritage Lottery Initiative who funded the project;

The North West Sound Archive who trained the Co-ordinators in interview technique and the use of the mini-disc recorder;

Barbara Cooper, Barbara Levis and Cathy Hurley who worked many hours as volunteers;

Brainne Edge, Jude Halton and Bill Rhodes who acted as Co-ordinators between the schools and the interviewees;

The staff and pupils at the schools involved;

Maria Smith our Education Adviser and Archivist;

[Crumplezone Multimedia] for the corporate design, technical support, concise editing and imaginative compilation of the CD;

The Travelling Mulberries for providing all the fun of the 40s in launching the reminiscences;

Louise McCall and Chorley Borough Council for their support in making the launch of the CD a bigger and better event;

and all those wonderful people who recorded their memories in the hope that future generations may learn.

The Interviewees

Ada Bagshaw, Elsie Baker, Eric Bell, Brenda Blackledge, Fred Blackledge, Irene Catton, Amy Clarkson, Marjorie Darbyshire, Joyce Dicker, Geoff Gardiner, John S Gavan, Les Gent, Eric Greenwood, Margaret Greenwood, Hugh Griffiths, Doreen Halton, Mary Halton, Alice Hargreaves, Jack Hargreaves, M E Heald, Barry Lowe, John N Lucas, Monica Maiden, Dorothy Moores, Raymond Moores, Doreen Rainford, William Rukin, John Townson, Miriam D Wadge, Maureen Wane, W B Wane.

 

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Photographs Courtesy of

Jimmy Carter, Brianne Edge, Judith Halton, Miriam Wadge, Kathleen Threlfall, Doreen Carter, The Bleasdale family, Jack Hargreaves, Alice Hargreaves, Brenda Blackledge, Joyce Dicker, Irene Catton, Eric Bell, Amy Clarkson, Roger Waring, Lorraine Cross, Barry Lowe, Geoff Gardiner, Doreen Halton, Margaret Heald,
Hugh Griffiths.

Exhibition Objects Kindly Loaned by

Miriam Wadge, Mr & Mrs T. Bleasdale, Stanley Dickinson, Mr and Mrs W. Rhodes,
Cathy Hurley, Barbara Levis.