Colchester Recalled What is Colchester Recalled? Colchester Recalled is a voluntary group compiling an archive of recorded memories about Colchester & District over the past 100 years. They have now completed more than 2,000 hours of recording, mainly interviews with over 600 local people, but also live accounts of local events as they happened (for example the Woolworths Fire of 1973). We have produced several CDs of ‘sound bites’ from our interviews. For example ‘Colchester Speaks’ costing £10 has memories of 20th century Colchester from the Boer War to the Gulf War. The archive is stored in the Colchester Museum Resources Centre, but public-access copies of all our tapes are held at the Albert Sloman Library, the University of Essex, and at the Essex Record Office in Chelmsford.   How can I take part? Colchester Recalled holds a monthly meeting at the Colchester Institute to listen to their latest recordings and hear a speaker on a topic of local history. A team of volunteers meets every Thursday at the Museum to index and archive the collection. Members who have had a short training course conduct regular interviews with equipment supplied by Colchester Recalled. Other members listen to all new tapes and make summaries of their contents. We publish a magazine called 'COLCHESTER RECALLED' full of photos and local people's memories which can be purchased for £1.00 at Gunton's in Crouch Street, Elmstead Market Post Office, the hairdressers' shop at Mile End or from Jim Robinson, telephone 01206 540655. If you are interested in learning more, telephone 01206 546775 and ask for Andrew Phillips.   What do the tapes contain? Below are links to the outlines of 2 typical Colchester Recalled tapes of local people’s lives. All our 2,000+ tapes will eventually have summaries like this. We need more local volunteers to help with the process.   Tape : 2331 Emmy Ethel Went- Born 3rd September 1899. Rowhedge Tape : 2221 George De'ath- Born 10th November 1922. Colchester