Oral History
The Harris has been building its oral history archive through the Memory Maker project. Recent areas of work have included asking people about their memories of the Harris, and the work of artist and film maker, Anna Raczynski, has explored people’s connections to the iconic Preston Bus Station.
Cost: Free of charge
Plan your visitPortraits of a Bus Station: Gill Ellard
Portraits of a Bus Station: Craig Atkinson
Portraits of a Bus Station: Graham Carr
Portraits of a Bus Station: Angela Brady
Portraits of a Bus Station: Chantal Oakes
Portraits of a Bus Station: Bob Frost
Greta Krypczyk Oddy: Harris Memories
When I retired from my full time employment in 1998, I would have been lost really without the Harris to take up that time and that interested in something so fascinating and interesting and something that I was welcomed into, really.
Jayne Cavallo: Harris Memories
Every summer, my granny would bring my brother and I to Preston to come and visit the Harris Museum, specifically. We’d travel on a Ribble bus upstairs because she smoked. And my brother and I would hang across the front and, you know, look at the sights as we came along.
John Siddall: Harris Memories
I was on the top floor, this will be and there was a witness to this. She worked here as well. Her name was Deborah Walklate. She worked here with me and she came up in the lift and I was on the top floor here. And the gallery was empty at the time. And I came to the main entrance and I looked across and a man came out with a lovely brown jacket and walked towards the lift. Deborah just came out of the lift to speak to me. And the bell went in the lift. So I said to Deborah, come back. See to it that he doesn’t come back. She went to the lift. The man had gone in the lift. And when we got there, he wasn’t there.