Oral history interview with Oliver Lockwood recorded and conducted by Robert Aitchison on 27 May 2004 as part of the Time Tracks oral history collecting initiative. Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds. Cinema’s in Shildon; films shown; poverty; bike for £3-17-6; film stars of the time; [00:05:00] Musicals seen in Newcastle; father had job at Shildon railway works; no paper but school used slates; suit for 8 guineas; father went to war, Second World War; [00:10:00] first TV in 1954 for £100; mortgage on house; first car Hillman Minx [00:15:00 ] still driving aged 80; radio shows listened to; black and white minstrels [00:20:00] 1975 celebrations, Stockton and Darlington 150th anniversary, cavalcade, engines [00:23:44] [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.