Brent Archive & Brent Libraries held workshops around the borough to help residents to record their wartime stories. In some workshops residents were supported in adding their memories directly onto the website, in other sessions staff took notes while people reminisced and added the stories later. [This was a true statement on 8th December 2005]
Brent Archive is the first place you should visit if you are interested in the history of Brent. Archives preserve and make available all kinds of historical documents including 18th century maps, letters and diaries written by local residents, parish registers and old photographs as well as more recent full colour photos. Through their collections archives can show the way a local area and its communities have developed over time.
We hold much information relating to WW2 including newspaper articles, images, council minutes and documents, ephemera, published histories etc.
Brent Archive also has a website www.brent.gov.uk/archive. Here you can access the Archive's on-line catalogue and see images (many of them war time) of the Borough in 'Brent in Pictures'. Brent Archive can be contacted by:
Telephone on 020 8937 3541, or e-mail archive@brent.gov.uk
Brent Libraries provides a range of services and materials to meet the needs of Brent's diverse communities. You may borrow a wide selection of books, (in English & many other languages), audio books, music CDs, videos and DVDs, read local and national newspapers and periodicals, and find reference books and quiet study spaces. Each of Brent's twelve libraries has computers with free Internet access. Brent Libraries web address is www.brent.gov.uk/library here you can get more information about the kind of events which may be on in your local library
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