Projects, case studies and articles

The oral history training workshops for both the Calver Weir and Tideswell Tales oral history projects have been a great success. inHeritage brought in Colin Hyde of the East Midlands Oral History Archive to lead both sessions. The Tideswell workshop was held in the Tideswell School of Food, made famous by the BBC’s Village SOS series.

We’ve just taken delivery of the time detective trail for Worcester County Council’s Beyond the City Walls exhibition. Aimed at 7 – 11 year olds, it is an interactive cartoon-based guide to the exhibition.

The inHeritage-designed panels for the Sheffield Central Library exhibition about the Hunter Archaeological Society. The panels are part of the Society’s centenary celebrations.

The 9 pull-up panels for The Butts exhibition, to open in The Hive, Worcester in July arrived today. The panels look great and the bamboo casing and poles for the pull-ups give them a much better look than the standard brushed aluminium.

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.

>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 …

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.