Yugoslavia

In this audio file a Yugoslav immigrant brickworker born. 01.03.1930, who came to Bedfordshire in 1947, describes the Yugoslavia, of his childhood up to the age of nine.

Why do we have this sound file at Bedfordshire & Luton Archives?

The Marston Vale Oral History Project 2001-2005 "Changing Landscapes: Changing Lives" was a four-year Heritage Lottery Fund Oral History Project, successfully completed in July 2005. Carmela Semeraro, project officer, conducted over 270 tape-recorded interviews with a range of men and women who have lived and worked in the Marston Vale area between Bedford and the M1, Cranfield and Willington.

The aim of this project was to create an Oral History Archive that shows, through the voices of individuals who have lived and worked in this area over the last one hundred years, how life and the physical environment have changed. Brickmaking, farming and local village economies have all changed enormously and with them the lives of communities, families and individuals.

Transcripts of the interviews are available on our online database under reference Z1205.