Telford on film premiere

We’re looking forward to premiering the new films that we’ve received back from MACE. They've done a fantastic job for us of digitising individual clips and creating two compilations which we think people will enjoy seeing. Lights... cameras... roll...!!

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We’ve created a little film which brings together all the elements of what we’ve been working on. A first for us by  learning how to use Movie Maker – hope people like it.

Telford Our New Town film

 

Sutton Hill Resident Group

 

Thanks to Nadeem at Sutton Hill Community Centre for inviting me to the Residents Group last night. I was able to tell everyone about the project, and show some of the photos. We’re hoping that we can go back to Shropshire Archives in 2016 and look for photos of Sutton Hill in the making. Wonderful as site preparations started in March 1966 – the Archbishop of Canterbury dedicated a stone at Sutton Hill Pastoral Centre in July of that year and first houses were occupied in March 1967.  

Interviewing skills

We’ve been practicing our interviewing skills with a couple of ex TDC employees who have very generously given up time to speak to us about the landscaping of the town and planning in general. We found out loads so are very grateful indeed!

Now we need to follow through by transcribing or writing up an overview of the interviews and then editing them.

More Oral History training

We were delighted to welcome Julia Letts back to do a second training session with us. Once again we had a very productive day learning and practising recording.
Memories are very powerful. To introduce ourselves we had to select an item from the tray - something which brought a memory/ies back to us and then we had to describe this to our partner who then used the information to introduce us. The smell of Vick was very powerful and had many of us reminiscing about occasions when it was a "life-saver". Fascinating stuff!

 

World Heritage Festival

A very busy day at Ironbridge on the Wharfage for the Festival Saturday 19 September.

Dawley Day

This is Dawley’s Day and one of the highlights in the community calendar. This year it’s scheduled a little later than usual to coincide with the Captain Webb celebrations. It is 140 years on Monday 24th August since Matthew Webb became the first man to swim the English Channel from Dover to Calais. We’ve been helping to celebrate this achievement as part of the Summer Reading Challenge with displays by Dawley Heritage lovers at the main libraries and sessions for the children – ‘Action and Adventure’.

 

 

 

 

So more recent heritage on show today from us with a display showing various photos that we have in the collection. Met some folks with great memories … 'worked at Carrefour … laid concrete on the first phase of the Town Centre' … 'My Mum and Dad were original residents on Sutton Hill and still live there'… 'I’ve got some photos in the loft – I’ll get them down.'

So thanks to all and despite thinking we’d be swimming home as the forecast was abysmal – we ended up being fried!

 

One young man said this is great what you’re doing… ‘It’s bringing old heritage into the new generation’ which we thought was a wonderful way of summing up the project.

 

 

 

Another great Dawley Day! entering into the spirit!