Category Archives: Sound and Video Archive

A Riverside Country Town

We recently unearthed this film made by Essex County Council in 1981 to promote the largescale new development of South Woodham Ferrers. The five minute film is a shortened version of the full 23 minute promotional film  released to attract … Continue reading

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Essex on film

Readers, today’s blog post contains Good News. Those of you who came to our Discovery Day recently might have seen the films that we were showing in our lecture theatre. If you had feared that you would never be able … Continue reading

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Evacuees’ voices at ERO

By Martin Astell, Sound and Video Archivist The Essex Sound and Video Archive has recently added to SEAX a collection of oral history interviews which focus on childhood experiences during World War II (SA 48). The collection includes a number … Continue reading

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Belt up!

Martin Astell blogs for us about one of the weird and wonderful things he is called upon to do as the Sound and Video Archivist at the Essex Record Office… Because the Essex Sound and Video Archive preserves a range of … Continue reading

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