Sounding Out Your Heritage |
Resources
Introduction
The participants made some fantastic resources. These included CDs, posters, leaflets, photo story books, a memory box and a sensory box. Take a look at these – and listen to some of them – by clicking on the links below.
Brompton - A Well Kept Secret
The CD contains the following memories of the Brompton participants:
1. Introduction |
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The Time of Our Lives – Memories of the Residents of Cranmer House
The CD contains the following memories of the Cranmer participants
1. Me and my harmonica |
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The participants from Windsor House produced a series of posters and leaflets
Posters:
- Bathing Beauties
- Come to Sunny Whitstable
- On the Beach
- Show a Leg!
Leaflets:
- Cinema – My Life in Film
Ed Haben - Entertainment – A Lifetime on the Stage
Alvena Bird - Food & Drink – Memories of a Pub Landlord
Donald (Dickie) Bird - Rock Collecting – A ‘How To’ Guide for New Collectors
Margaret Phipps - Sailing – Memories of a Reluctant Sailor
Ley Liberson
> see the mini-toolkit on posters and leaflets
Photo Story Books
Memories and Recipes from The Dynes is a wonderful collection of personal stories, photographs and recipes produced by the participants for The Dynes, an Abbeyfield Kent Society care home, based in Kemsing near Sevenoaks in Kent.
This book can be ordered from Blurb – please contact the GEM Office for details.
Memories of Past Times is a collection of stories and memories of the participants from Snowdown Court, a Southern Housing Group sheltered scheme in the small rural village of Aylesham in Kent.
Much has been written about Aylesham and the fact that it was built for house coal miners from the local Kent collieries. Rather than focusing on coal mining, the residents were clear that their resource would contain their own personal stories whether they were about coal mining or not.
This book can also be ordered from Blurb – please contact the GEM Office for details.
> see the mini-toolkit on creating memory books
Memory Box
Over eight sessions a group of participants from Cranmer House, a Canterbury City Council owned sheltered accommodation, worked together to produce a CD and an object box. The group honed their stories and chose objects that best represented them.
The object box is a case full objects that tells many stories, rather than a case of “every picture tells a story”.
The object box, with a copy of the CD has been donated by the group to the Canterbury Museum for the museum to use in helping other groups to achieve a project such as theirs.
> see the mini-toolkit on creating a memory box
Story Quilt
The residents of Edward Moore House, an Abbeyfield Kent Society care home, made an interactive story quilt.
Not only can people view and touch the quilt, but they can also experience music and dance through scent and sound. There are press buttons that play snippets of the participants’ favourite tunes. Hidden pockets contain floral scents that are reminiscent of corsages and bouquets.
The story quilt reflects music and dance as an experience rather than specific individual memories.
> see the mini-toolkit on creating a story quilt