Bolton Little Theatre

ORAL HISTORIES WITH THEATRE STAFF, WRITERS AND ACTORS

SUMMARIES (SEE ITEM LEVEL FOR FULL TRANSCRIPTS):

ERIC DAWSON, b.1950 BOLTON

2007.0070 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AND HIS WORK SET DESIGNING FOR VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS

23MINS 40 SECS

BRIAN ALDRED, b.1934 BOLTON

2007.0071 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE INCLUDING HIS WORK AS STAGE MANAGER AND WORK ON VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS.

23 MINS 08 SECS

LEILA ASHWORTH, b.1935 BOLTON

2007.0072 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AND HER WORK ON PROPS FOR VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS.

19MINS 39 SECS

SHEILA COATES, b.1924 BOLTON

2007.0073 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS AN ACTRESS IN VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS AND HER TIME IN THE PRODUCTIONS COMMITTEE.

32 MINS 49SECS

PETER WARD, b. 1933 BOLTON

2007.0074 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE YOUTH GROUP, BEING A BAR MANAGER, CHAIRMAN OF THE THEATRE AND VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS.

19 MIN 17 SECS

OLIVE BOWLING

2007.0075 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS PRODUCTION SECRETARY

17MINS 09 SECS

KAYLEIGH LUNT, b.10 AUG. 1996 FARNWORTH

2007.0076 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE YOUTH PRODUCTIONS AS AN ACTRESS

4 MINS 35 SECS

SIR IAN MCKELLEN, b.25 MAY, 1939 BURNLEY

2007.0077 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AND VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS HE APPEARED IN.

17MINS 57 SECS

CATH BLOWER, b.1934 FARNWORTH

2007.0078 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE JUNIOR GROUP AND VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS WHEN OLDER

37 MINS 30 SECS

OLIVER HOLT, b.1930 HALE

2007.0079 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS A WRITER OF REVIEWS, AS HOUSE MANAGER.

20 MINS 25SECS

VAL HOLT, b. 1936 BOLTON

2007.0080 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS SET DRESSER AND ACTRESS

8MINS 0 SECS

ALAN HOUGH, b. 1929 RAMSBOTTOM

2007.0081 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS ACTOR AND DIRECTOR

21 MINS 25 SECS

ANNE PARRY, b. 1933 DONCASTER

2007.0082 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE IN THE BOX OFFICE AND AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE

17 MINS 20 SECS

FRANCES CLEMMITT, b.1950 BROMLEY CROSS

2007.0083 INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS A SCENERY PAINTER AND SOUND ENGINEER

24 MINS 58 SECS

THE OLD VIC IN BURNLEY

2007.0092 EDITH CORNER, JIM FRANCIS, OLWYN DOWNS, JEAN LEVER & PHIL ROWEN RECALL THE OLD VIC IN BURNLEY DURING WW2.MEMORIES OF THE VARIOUS ACTORS AND ACTRESSES, THE THEATRE AND PERFORMANCES.

41MINS 44 SECS

VIVIAN BLOOMFIELD, b.1944 NOTTINGHAM

2007.0135 TALKS ABOUT HER WORK IN THE PROPERTIES DEPARTMENT FOR BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. VARIOUS PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS INVOLVED IN AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE THEATRE.MAKING VARIOUS PROPS AND PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED

MARK LEIGH, b. BOLTON

2007.0136 DESC HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE INCLUDING ACTING,CATERING,HOUSE MANAGER,BAR. TALKS OF NUMEROUS PLAYS INVOLVED IN, BOTH SERIOUS AND COMEDY, AND THE DIRECTORS AND OTHER ACTORS

31MINS 48SECS

MARK BLOOMFIELD, b. 1951 WEMBLEY

2007.0137 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. WORKED IN A NUMBER OF ROLES INCLUDING ACTING, BAR WORK AND SOUND. TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF PLAYS INVOLVED IN AND DIRECTORS AND OTHER ACTORS.

16MINS 15SECS

KATH CHEETHAM, b.1946 ROCHDALE

2007.0138 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. WORKED IN THE PROPERTIES DEPARTMENT AND DESC MAKING OR FINDING PROPS AND CREATING STAGES FOR A NUMBER OF PLAYS INCLUDING TOUR IN GERMANY. RECEIVED MBE FOR HER WORK

24MINS 32SECS

JUNE GRICE, b. PRESTON

2007.0139 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. STARTED AS ACTRESS IN 1976 AND ACTED IN NUMEROUS PLAYS. TALKS OF THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF THE THEATRE AND HER INVOLVEMENT WITH THE COMMITTEE AND HER TIME AS CHAIRMAN.

20MINS 55SECS

JEFF LUNT, b.1964 BOLTON

2007.0140 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. HAS CARRIED OUT NUMEROUS ROLES INCLUDING SOUND, LIGHTING, STAGE BUILDING, STAGE MANAGING AND ACTING. DESC A NUMBER OF PLAYS INVOLVED IN AND ACTORS INC. IAN MCKELLEN

ANDREW CLOSE, b.1953, FARNWORTH

2007.0141 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE, INITIALLY AS AN ACTOR AND THEN AS DIRECTOR.TALKS ABOUT NUMEROUS PLAYS INVOLVED AND OTHER MEMBERS AND ACTORS AND TOURS INC TRIP TO AMERICA.

34MINS 28SECS

ELIZABETH TATMAN, b.1933 BURY

2007.0151 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE, HER EARLY DAYS HAVING MINOR ACTING ROLES, PROGRESSING TO HOUSE MANAGER AND THEN CHAIRMAN. TALKS OF MAJOR ISSUES FACED, ACHIEVEMENTS AND INFLUENTIAL FIGURES AND PERFORMING ABROAD

MICHAEL HAWORTH, b.1944 BOLTON

2007.0152 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITLE THEATRE, ACTING, DIRECTING AND AS HOUSE MANAGER. DESCRIBES NUMEROUS PLAYS INVOLVED IN AND OTHER ACTORS.

15MINS 10SECS

JIM AITKEN, b.1921 MANCHESTER

2007.0153 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS AN ACTOR. DESCRIBES A NUMBER OF PLAYS INVOLVED IN AND OTHER ACTORS AND DIRECTORS.

PAULINE DERBYSHIRE-WHITEHEAD, b.WEMBLEY

2007.0154 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE AS AN ACTRESS. TALKS ABOUT A NUMBER OF PLAYS SHE APPEARED IN WITH VARIOUS ACTORS AND THE DIRECTORS INVOLVED.

16MINS 45 SECS

JULIE COLLIER, b.4 APRIL,1935 KINGSTON-UPON-HULL

2007.0155 STARTED ACTING AT WIGAN LITTLE THEATRE, MET AND MARRIED DIRECTOR DEREK COLLIER,AND MOVED TO BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE.TALKS ABOUT PLAYS APPEARED IN AND OTHER ACTORS INVOLVED. TALKS OF THE WORK OF HER HUSBAND AS DIRECTOR AND TOURING.

HAROLD SMITH, b.1929 BURY

2007.0156 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. TALKS OF A NUMBER OF PLAYS APPEARED IN AS AN ACTOR AND OTHER ACTORS INVOLVED. TURNED TO DIRECTING AND TALKS OF THE CHANGES TO THE THEATRE.

AUDREY LIAS, b.1946 DIDSBURY

2007.0157 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. APPEARED IN A NUMBER OF PLAYS AS AN ACTRESS AND THEN BECAME INVOLVED IN DIRECTING. WENT ON TOUR WITH THE THEATRE INCLUDING A TRIP TO AMERICA.

17 MINS 40 SECS

MURIEL CLARK, b.1928 RAMSBOTTOM

2008.0025 DESC CHILDHOOD IN RAMSBOTTOM, DESC BUILDINGS, PORRITTS MILL IN STUBBINS, WALKED TO TOWER ON HOLCOMBE HILL ON GOOD FRIDAY, RECALLS CHURCHES IN TOWN, WHIT WALKS, BONFIRE NIGHT, ROYAL THEATRE & EMPIRE THEATRE, GRANTS TOWER WHICH FELL DOWN

34MINS 14SECS

SUSAN GILL, b.20 APR 1947 SKIPTON

2008.0051 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE.STARTED IN PROPS AND COFFEE BAR THEN STARTED ACTING. DESC ROLES AND PLAYS INVOLVED IN, REHEARSALS, DIRECTORS AND CHANGES TO THEATRE

NEVILLE COATES, b.1927 BOLTON

2008.0052 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. WENT TO BLT AS CHILD AND LATER VOLUNTEERED TO RUN THE BAR. DESC WORK INVOLVED, SLATES, PEOPLE HE WORKED WITH, THE BAR AREA, AND ANECDOTES OF HIS TENURE

MICHAEL SHIPLEY, b.1936, BOLTON

2008.0053 TALKS OF HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. ACTED THERE AS A CHILD & THEN BECAME INVOLVED IN PRODUCTION. TALKS OF ACTORS, PLAYSOTHER SIGNIFICANT PEOPLE IN THEATRE, THE COMMITTEE, CHANGES TO THE THEATRE, SMITHILLS SUMMER PRODUCTIONS.

SANDRA SIMPSON, b.1943, PRESTON

2008.0054 TALKS ABOUT HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. STARTED ACTING WITH WOMENS INSTITUTE & JOINED BLT WHEN MOVED TO BOLTON. TALKS ABOUT DIRECTING A NUMBER OF PLAYS, VARIOUS ACTORS INVOLVED,TECHNICAL ASPECTS, CHANGES TO THEATRE

MICHAEL TATMAN, b.1933, DERBY

2008.0055 TALKS ABOUT HIS INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. TALKS ABOUT ACTING ROLES, PLAYING IN FRANCE, VARIOUS INCIDENTS ON STAGE, CHANGES TO THE THEATRE, DESIGNING AND MAKING SETS.

HILDA MAKIN, b.1925, BOLTON

2008.0056 TALKS ABOUT INVOLVEMENT WITH BOLTON LITTLE THEATRE. WORKED IN PROPS DEPT WITH BETSY WALKER. DESC DIFFERENT PROPS SHE MADE, WARDROBE, VARIOUS PLAYS INVOLVED WITH, MOSS BANK PARK OUTDOOR THEATRE.