Maggie 65 Report post Posted February 19, 2013 (edited) Living along the Cut The Friends of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal World Heritage Site (‘Aqueducks’) have been awarded a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to collect memories and images from the local communities along the 11 miles of the World Heritage Site. We will be holding a series of events including Walks and ‘Show and Tells’, where people will be encouraged to bring along their photos, objects and stories about the canal and the local industries. Starting in early summer we will then record and scan these stories, memories or 'things' depending what comes out from the 'Show and Tells' For volunteers on the project there will be training in using and editing digital media recordings. EVENTS FOR SPRING 2013 Saturday 23rd February. 11am – 1 pm Walk Llantisilio/Horseshoe Falls/Chain Bridge Saturday March 16th 12am tbc, Trevor Basin Walk with canal historian Peter Brown Saturday 6th April Chirk Bank Show and Tell all day Fri/Sat 12/13th April Chirk Bank Walk and Gledrid car park event Saturday May 4th 10-4 pm Show and Tell Llangollen Museum Please come along to events, meet people, find out about the local heritage, share your stories and have fun (and tea and cakes)! If you would like to volunteer for the project and learn how to produce audio recordings of people, then I'd love to hear from you. Edited March 10, 2013 by Maggie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leebarnfield 30 Report post Posted February 20, 2013 Will hopefully come along to the show and tells. I will bring some photographs along and hopefully some short films :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peter Harling 4 Report post Posted March 10, 2013 It will be great to see you at one or more of the show and tells Lee, cant wait to see the pics and films you have, Just the sort of stuff we are looking for. The Living along the Cut project now has a dedicated web page built into the Aqueducks web site. We will post events and information as and when we get it, the site is being updated hourly so please keep checking in at . http://www.aqueducks.org/index.html We have just had a very kind donation of over 500 local slides from the family of local historian Neville Hurdsman. We are in the process of digitising the slides and will host them all on the Aqueducks website, Thanks Pete Vice chair The Friends of Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Llangollen Canal World Heritage Site (‘Aqueducks’) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
