It was a busy day for us. It was the Afternoon Tea for our specially invited guests. About 40 people attended the event. Some folk had not seen each other for years, and others didn’t recognise folk. It was great
Networking in Selby
Jan and Shirley attended the “Celebrating Selby’s Heritage” workshop at Selby District Council offices. It was organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Selby District Council. It was great to listen to other HLF projects around the district. We came
A trip to Beverley
Jan, Mark, June, Dave, Karen, and Shirley visited the East Yorkshire Archives in Beverley. A big list of archives had been pre-ordered and awaited us on our arrival. A £10 fee for a photograph permit for the day was well
We’re expanding our social media presence
As well as our dedicated Facebook page OHHGroup, we opened a Twitter account @OsgodbyHeritage. Promoting our project is important as is the need to recruit new volunteers over the next two years. #puttingosgodbyonthemap
Let’s involve the “younger generation”
Exciting day today. We met with staff from the Selby College who are keen for students to be involved with the project, in particular design of a website, and photography and graphics design. We are keen to involve the “younger
It’s time for some training
As part of the project, we have a section “Living Memories”. Oral history is the recording of people’s memories, experiences, and opinions . It is a living history of everyone’s unique life experience. It is an opportunity for those people
A brilliant start launching our project
It’s finally arrived, after keeping our success under-wraps for a couple of weeks – today we launched our Project “The Village with a Heritage Nun Could Guess”. It feels like years since we first brought together people to see if