From the Essex Records Office latest blog.

https://www.essexrecordofficeblog.co.uk

The following is the opening paragraph, the blog also states where they are already established and a map where others will be.


Historic sounds of Essex – coming to a town near you
by admin
Sarah-Joy Maddeaux, You Are Hear Project Officer

If a bench could talk, what would it say? The listening benches being installed across the county by the Essex Record Office do talk, and they tell you stories and play you recordings of local history past and present - recordings like these memories of growing up on Marks Hall Estate by Pearl Scopes and Bill and Daphne Carter (SA 51/2/5/1, full interview available on the Discovering Coggeshall YouTube channel).
03-SA-051-2-05-1-Side-A-Part-68-clip.mp3