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L444 - Audio tapes, scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs belonging to John Abberley, journalist and broadcaster

Located At	Stoke on Trent City Archives
Level	Collection
Doc Ref No	SD 1783
Title	Audio tapes, scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs belonging to John Abberley, journalist and broadcaster
Administrative History	John Abberley (1932-2010), affectionately known as Abbo, began his career as a journalist at 17 years old when he joined the Evening Sentinel in 1949. Starting by reporting on local fairs, shows and village reports he moved on to political stories, sport, and theatre reviews. He joined the BBC in 1967 as one of the founding members of BBC Radio Stoke. He was recruited by BBC station manager Harold Williams for his unrivalled knowledge of local affairs and his potential as a radio personality, and BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent was opened in 1968. Here he spent many years, until 1989, covering a wide-ranging news brief which included a stint as the station's first Stoke City commentator. After retiring from the radio he returned to The Sentinel and went on to write for its Way We Were publication.
Arrangement	This collection is catalogued under the following reference number: SD 1783
Date	1940s-2010
Description	This collection is currently uncatalogued. Please contact Stoke-on-Trent CityArchives for further details: Stoke on Trent City Archives, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW. This archive is comprised of c.1000 audio tapes, and 10 boxes of scrapbooks and newscuttings and 4 of correspondence, photographs and ephemera belonging to John Abberley, journalist and broadcaster, 1940s-2010. This deposit contains the following items: BBC Radio Stoke audio tapes Correspondence to and from John Abberley regarding The Sentinel Scrapbooks of articles writen by John Abberley for The Sentinel Personal ephemera Theatre programmes
Extent	1000 audio tapes, 14 boxes
AccessNote	Some correspondence in this collection comes from the public and contains personal or senstive information regarding living individuals.
Copyright	Any questions concerning the publication of images of documents in the collection should be directed to the Archive Services Manager, Stoke on Trent CityArchives, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, ST1 3DW.