Eight cassette tapes providing an audio recording of Ron Perry's memoirs entitled 'The Way it was'

Reference Number

1514/4

Alternative Reference Number

1514
PP/1065

Level of Description

Sub-series

Title

Eight cassette tapes providing an audio recording of Ron Perry's memoirs entitled 'The Way it was'

Creator(s) & Administrative History

Perry, Ronald Archibald Worron

Date

1918-1947

Extent

Extent: 8 audio cassettes

Description

Eight cassette tapes recorded by Ronald (Ron) A. W. Perry detailing his memoirs entitled 'The Way It Was', with the pilot tapes recorded in 1992. They cover the years 1918-1935 and primarily focus, in great detail, on Ron’s army service during the Second World War and his time serving abroad in France.
Additional themes include: his mother’s death of influenza and his fostering by the Perry family and his childhood and teenage years growing up in Bath and living at 16 Fairfield Avenue; his education at Walcot School; and his working life as an apprentice mechanic at Widcombe Garage and Pierrepont Garage, Manvers Street, Bath.

Existence and Location of Copies

Digitised MP3 versions are available on Preservica via internal access at Bath Record Office.

Contents

• 1514/4/1 - Cassette 1 of 'The Way It Was'
• 1514/4/2 - Cassette 2 of 'The Way It Was'
• 1514/4/3 - Cassette 3 of 'The Way It Was'
• 1514/4/4 - Cassette 4 of 'The Way It Was'
• 1514/4/5 - Cassette 5 of ‘The Way It Was’
• 1514/4/8 - Cassette 8 of ‘The Way It Was’
• 1514/4/6 - Cassette 6 of ‘The Way It Was’
• 1514/4/7 - Cassette 7 of ‘The Way It Was’