Harry Whitfield interviewed by Robert Aitchison

Oral history interview with Harry Whitfield, conducted and recorded on 13 February 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 36 minutes 6 seconds. Born 1920 in Shildon; early life; Shildon works; smiths shop; machine shop; fitters; millwrights; Shildon show; World War II; wartime work; women working during the war; crossing gates; redundancy 1982; closure of Shildon railway works 1984; family; 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade; Queen Mother's visit; 1926 General Strike; coal drops; accidents; Shildon cinema; Shildon station

Time Tracks, Shildon Railway Village Community Project was an initiative funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that encouraged members of the public to bring photographs and documents at Locomotion to form a community archive, when Locomotion museum was opened in Shildon, 2004. Over 50 oral history interviews were also recorded with members of the community. They shared their memories of Shildon as they knew it in their childhood and throughout their lives, from as early as the 1920s, as well as their work experiences in local factories and industries, including Shildon railway works.