In 2003, Hazel Weedon and Jan Rennie interviewed four long standing Hempstead residents (Dorothy Fleming, Elsie Bacon, Margaret Drane and Nellie Halls) about life inthe village between the wars. The recordings have been deposited with the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford and can be accessed from the link below.
https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/ViewCatalogue.aspx?ID=1245052
More recently, in 2024, Diana Frost and Ross Midgley have interviewed some of Hempstead’s longer standing residents. Transcripts and/or recordings of these conversations are given below.