Welcome to “The Back-Chat Collection”
Carlo Harrison 21st May 1947 – 19th May 2025
Back-Chat is an ongoing collection of interviews with ordinary people talking about their lives giving an insight into life from 1920 to today. The topics covered in this collection range from the everyday to the extraordinary.
Having worked on the Aireborough Historical Society website with Carlo for a number of years, it was to me Carlo turned to for help on how to translate his vision of an archive of audio recordings into a website and something which could be preserved for future generations. I designed the website cut out the pictures and created the template for Carlo to populate with the content.
The original domain name lapsed and it feels such a shame to allow the content to disappear. Most of the people Carlo interviewed lived within 10 miles of Rawdon, some of them lived or worked in Rawdon and very few would not have known anything about the village.
That is why Back-Chat is now a subdomain of A History of Rawdon.
The full content is available via Yorkshire Archives.