| Description | Contains oral history project records relating to 22 interviews comprising .wav file interview recordings, summary sheets and transcripts. It also contains a booklet produced by project, a Calver Mill brochure, exhibition banners produced by project, a film produced by exhibition, photographs, podcasts recordings, and the Calver Weir Audio Trail recordings and map. |
| Administrative History | The Calver Weir Restoration Oral History Project was carried out over a year between 2012-2012. It involved interviews and documentary research, conducted as part of the Calver Weir Restoration Project, which was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Local volunteers recorded the memories of 22 people relating to the mill, weir, and river. The project focused on the memories of people who had worked at the mill, as well as living and playing alongside the river and weir.
The project recorded the family histories of Lancashire cotton workers who settled in Calver to work at the mill to recollections of Sissons employees, the stainless-steel company who owned the mill between the 1940s and 1990s, and the BBC filming of Colditz during the late 1960s. People also recalled the importance of the river as a place for recreation, angling and wildlife. |
| Custodial History | These records were donated to Derbyshire Record Office in September 2013 by the manager of the oral history project on behalf of the Calver Weir Restoration Project. |