News
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Midgley Project
19 June 2007
In our ‘Age to Age’ project, 2008 onwards, Wild Rose Heritage and Arts wants to work with the Midgley History Group looking at a potential history project in Halifax and the Upper Calder Valley.
Combining researching old records and using oral history from the past and present,
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Our Next Project
19 June 2007
Over the next nine months, we will be completing a planning project, hopefully in preparation for a further five-year project, called ‘Age to Age’, which will collect oral histories within the upper Calder valley.
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May Morning Meetings
18 June 2007
Interviewee Glenda Gibson has donated to us information on the outdoor prayer meetings in the Colden valley in early May every year. Her father Vincent was one of those who worked hard to revive and organise the event in the 1930’s.
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Then and Now
16 June 2007
Volunteer Jefferson Hammond has taken about twenty photographs of old Hebden Bridge, kindly donated to us by the Alice Longstaff Collection, and taken modern day versions of the same photographs.
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Storytelling
19 May 2007
As part of our plan to make oral history accessible in a variety of ways, storyteller Rachel Loise has gone through the Generations Talking transcripts and devised a thirty minute story taking small sections from many personal life stories and woven then together, using verbatim quotes, to develop a
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Project updates
16 September 2010
Want to know more about Wild Rose Heritage and Arts? Why not come to our Talk and Presentation on the completion of ten years of activities, archiving and recording.
