Comments on: The YHA Historical Archive

By: Ian McDonald

Ian McDonald — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:20:21 +0000

My late Uncle, Peter Shepherdly, was a keen cyclist all his life. He died last year, and we have a collection or around 30 badges collected from the 1950’s onwards from various Youth hostels. If you would like them, please let me have an address to send them to.

By: Samir Cordell

Samir Cordell — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:53:46 +0000

Hello. I am studying the YHA for a module at Oxford Brookes. My title is: Shifting Values in a Changing World? I am looking at the early values of gender equality, the mixing of social groups and, after the war, internationalism. I am looking at whether these values are just as strong today as they were at the YHA’s founding, and whether a new business model and the developmetn of city based hostels (which replaced the old model of voluntarism) has compromised the YHA’s goal of encouraging access to the countryside. I know this is a lot…but I would love to get people’s feedback. One last request: does anyone have a copy of the BBC 4 film – YHA, the first hundred years. It isn’t on I player any more. Many thanks indeed.

Samir

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:27:45 +0000

I think it’s An Oige. An Orgia doesn’t sound like anything I have ever experienced in youth hostels.

By: alan Sidaway

alan Sidaway — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:18:37 +0000

I have lots of old handbooks YHA SYHA Northern Ireland yha, An Orgia yha but would like to get some of my missing ones I have swops if you would like

By: Tony Hoadley

Tony Hoadley — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:18:15 +0000

Very interested in the Archive from a personal point of view.
I was a keen cyclist and hiker member in the 1950s (1949 on).
I have my membership cards, with hostels visited, but would be very interested if any Handbooks giving Hostel details are viewable for this period , as an aid to my personal memoirs.
What is the situation regarding viewing of such archive material?

By: Richard Wilde

Richard Wilde — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:53:25 +0000

I have some old postcards and photo’s from the late 1940’s.If you give me an email address I will send a list of the Hostels featured.

By: maggie v fink

maggie v fink — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:55:07 +0000

I thought you might be interested to know that I recognised my father, Arthur Russell Jones, in tbe bbc film about the first 100 years of the Yha. He appeared as a warden in the very early film.I was a bit doubtful at first until I saw the credits that david putnam was viewing and saw my fathers name and that of our alsation dog Jim. I vaguely remember him telling me that jim had appeared in a film for the yha. My dad died in 1974 at the age of 84 so it was a lovely surprise for me to see him again! Regards maggie v fink