Down Memory Lane - Anderson Shelter
We have been preparing for the Down Memory Lane activities and events that start the week of the 16th April.
We have been preparing for the Down Memory Lane activities and events that start the week of the 16th April.
On Thursday 12th
April at 11am Doris Hurley (Chair of
the Oasis & Abingdon Resource and Wellbeing Centre members group) and
myself (Sharon Woodward) were interviewed for local radio. The BBC Radio Oxford
Malcolm Boyden show.
Doris was wonderful and it
was great that the local station were so supportive in promoting this project.
I had to smile when Malcolm Boyden attempted to tease Doris. He joked about her
being a movie star at 86 and then asked, had she consider being in the new
James Bond Film?
It was excellent when she
responded with 'Yes' that she wouldn't mind volunteering to help them out.
16th April 2012
Well today the Down Memory
Lane Project really got started. We were treated to a visit by the Drayton Brownies, they sang a number of songs including ‘We’ll Meet Again’. They
also had a number of interesting questions to ask.
The young people asked the
Senior Citizens how life had been different when they were young. The questions
covered things like getting up and going to school without a hot shower or Central
Heating. Traveling to and from school and how they would learn once they were
at school. Learning was not done via a computer, the games that were played had
been very similar or the same. They spoke about after school activities as television
was not around and learning to saw and knit were the favorite pastimes.
What I found interesting
afterwards was the Brownies feedback. One young lady said that she was
surprised that they had games in common. Another said she had not realized
there had been so many small shops as she was used to shopping in a large
supermarket, with all the goods under one roof. Another spoke about Rationing, saying she had been aware of food getting rationed but didn't know that clothing had the same restrictions.
Down Memory Lane is funded
by The Awards For All Grant – National Lottery
The project is being run
with:
Sharon Woodward –
Filmmaker/Artist in Residence, Project Co-ordinator
Cait Sweeney – Assistant
Co-ordinator
Forum Chairs (representing
the Oasis group)
Renee Zarecky , Josie
Kinduich , Doris Hurley, Janet Churlish, Sylvia Pead and Mary
Southey
Jackie Bowler – Abingdon
Resource and Wellbeing Centre
Abigail Brown – Arts
Development Officer Vale of the White Horse District Council
With Support and thanks to:
Pauline Krason, Pat Taylor,
Jean Abraham, Sarah Holloway, Lina Mokute,
Christine Sadler and Jackie
Richards.
