Oral history interview with Frank Wilson (session 2 of 2) recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 28 April 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 22 minutes 47 seconds. Timeline of Merry-Go-Round wagons; good times for Shildon; other wagons constructed at Shildon; [00:05:00] Second World War, 1939-1945, wartime; wages between 1957 and 1960’s; occupation of wife at Aycliffe; other jobs; cinemas in New Shildon; no dance hall but other social activities; [00:10:00] New Shildon shop sold records; advent of television around 1958; reading rooms; [00:15:00 ] food; newspapers; not political; equality for women; Shildon railway works holiday; [00:20:00] leisure, holidays for his family at Butlins, Isle of Wight, Margate and Blackpool [00:22:47] [end of interview]

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.