In June 2009, 12 volunteers from organisations and groups that use the community centre were trained in oral history interviewing and recording techniques. In total, over 6 hours of recordings were made with 14 interviewees ranging in age from 13 to over 90. Many of the people we have spoken to have lived their lives through the centre; their mothers brought them to the child welfare clinic; they attended the youth club where they met and married their partner and celebrated their wedding in the big hall; they brought their own children to the clinic and youth club and their mums and dads attended the dances and older people's groups.

One interviewee had moved to the area in June 1938 and watched the centre being built; she still lives across the road with her husband who she met at the Goldsmiths Youth Club in the 1940s. Others had only recently come to the centre, whether it was to the youth club or to join children, family or older people’s support groups. Listen to their memories of the centre, from 1939 to today.