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Calver Weir Memories Day
Today was the first public event of the Calver Weir Oral History project. Bill facilitated a memories day in Calver village which brought together the volunteers and participants willing to share memories, photos or other info about Calver Mill, its Weir and the River Derwent nearby.
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Delving into Medieval Hope-Castleton
>Residents of Hope and Castleton are getting stuck in to the Medieval Common People Project being organized by Hope and Castleton Historical Societies. The project has got off to an exciting start with visits to three record offices and a training day in landscape archaeology. The project is also drawing in people from other parts …
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Tideswell Tales
Friday the 16th March was the first meeting of the Tideswell Tales project since the news that the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded a grant to the Tideswell Living History Group.
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AHI Committee
I spent today at the spring committee meeting of the Association for Heritage Interpretation. I was voted on to the committee, and as a trustee of the Association, in September, and this was my first committee meeting. It was a packed meeting, both the agenda and the size of the room for the number of …
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Worcester Cartoon Panels
Here is a sample of one of the full cartoon panels that make up part of the exhibition about The Butts in Worcester. This is panel 7 which covers the cattle market, and where Kasey discovers her grand-grandfather at work. The full exhibition opens in The Hive in July.
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Lune Aqueduct and Lancaster Canal
We had an inception meeting today with staff from British Waterways to begin a year-long project called ‘Digital Memories of the Lune Aqueduct’. This project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, aims to discover, record and communicate people’s experiences and stories of the aqueduct and canal. We will train volunteers to undertake oral history work, …
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Colour Cannons
Here is the coloured version of the cannon cartoon frame for the Worcester Archives exhibition in The Hive. Please see previous news story. The frame will appear on the leaflet publicising the exhibition – so look out for it around Worcester soon.
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Cartoon Worcester
Here’s a sneak preview of one of the pencil roughs from the cartoon panels for The Butts exhibition at The Hive.
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Hope-Castleton Lichfield Archives Training
Fifteen members of Hope and Castleton Historical Societies, along with other volunteers from the Hope Valley and Sheffield, begin discovering Hope and Castleton’s Medieval past in Lichfield Archives.
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Memories of Calver Weir and Mill
inHeritage have just been contracted to help the Calver Weir Restoration Project record and preserve the memories of people associated with Calver Mill and the weir.