Bridging the years project: Tape 29 - Interview with Eddie Frow
TitleBridging the years project: Tape 29 - Interview with Eddie Frow
ReferenceSUBJ/SALFORD/3/30
Date
30 Mar 1990
Production date 1990-03-30 - 1990-03-30
Scope and ContentThe interview covers starting work in the tool room at Ford's in the 1930, then working at Metropolitan-Vickers, Ferranti's, AV Roe and Gardner's. It also covers apprenticeships and strikes, being an Amalgamated Engineering Union shop steward, having women shop stewards and attitudes to women in work. Also covered are left wing politics in the 1930s-1940s, unemployment, the Spanish Civil War and the second world war [one side of the cassette only]
Extent1 audio cassette and 1 digital recording
Physical descriptionDuration: 48 min.
LanguageEnglish
Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library.
The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing.
The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing.
Persons keywordFrow, Eddie, Ford Motor Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, Ferranti, AV Roe, L Gardner and Sons, Amalgamated Engineering Union
SubjectEngineers, Apprentices, Strikes, Women, Politics, Unemployment, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), World War Two (1939-1945), Oral history
Conditions governing accessOpen
Levelfile
Normal locationZ Salford Tapes Box 1 (Room 24)