Eastside Community Heritage seeks to build, service and enable partnerships which record, document and preserve the experiences of different communities, through the provision of social, cultural, educational and historical activities.
Our methodology incorporates education and training, with schools, families and adult learners. Eastside produces exhibitions, publications and multi media stimuli which are an opportunity for all cultures and age ranges to engage in a proactive discovery of their own and their community’s history, culture and heritage.
NEW!!! Ireland – What Was That About?
Eastside Community Heritage are proud to present the new ‘Ireland – What Was That About?’ website featuring oral histories, videos, photos and more. To view the site click here.
NEW! – Barking Park
In collaboration with Barking Park (London Borough Of Barking and Dagenham) and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Eastside Community Heritage is embarking on an exciting oral history project to record the stories of the people who use this wonderful space.
Here are some of their memories.
To listen to some audio clips and view more wonderful pictures click here.
Rediscovering Redbridge
Over the past six months, we have recorded peoples’ memories of living and working in Redbridge over the last 70 years. Many peoples’ memories involve Redbridge during wartime, rationing, how shopping and transport have changed over the years, and how Redbridge as a whole has changed.
Audio clips for the Rediscovering Redbridge project can be heard by clicking here.
Dancing Round The Maypole on Wanstead Flats © Eastside Community Heritage
The Ring Ramblers Project
The Olympic Ramblers project is an exciting new project working with local schools in four of the Olympic boroughs. The aim of the project is to design a series of historic rambles to the Olympic Park site using people’s memories of the area to create an interesting and unique ramble.
We are currently collecting memories from local people who have lived and / or worked in the area for a number of years. The memories collected will be used in school workshops to aid the creativity of the local children in designing their ramble. The local children will also create downloadable podcasts and maps of their rambles so they can be enjoyed for many years to come.
This organisation has been awarded a Transformers grant, funded by The National Lottery, through the Olympic Lottery Distributor, and managed by ELBA.
If you would like to share your memories of the area, please contact Claire on 0208 553 4343, or by email: claire@ech.org.uk.
Working Lives website!!!
Eastside Community Heritage are proud to present the new Working Lives website featuring oral histories, videos, photos and more. To view the site click here
As part of the Working Lives project Eastside Community Heritage has also added an education resources area of the website containing classroom projects relating to each borough. To access your district please click here.
Working lives publication now available, for a copy contact office@ech.org.uk
Olympic Memories Audio
Eastside has been collecting the memories of people who worked, lived and played on the Olympic Park site and the wider Stratford area.
A selection of these memories can be heard by clicking here.
Imagining the Past in Barking & Dagenham Exhibition
A new and exciting audio–visual exhibition at the Ripple Centre, 11am Friday 18th March 2011. The exhibition is being produced by year 5 pupils from Ripple Junior School, Barking and follows a series of workshops with the pupils and members of the community who kindly gave up their time to share their experiences of living in the area in the past. This excellent community exhibition will be launched by Rt Hon Margaret Hodge, MP and admission is free of charge.
To read more about the project and listen to audio clips of the events click here.
What did the unions do for you?
A Witness Seminar on trade unions
At the Buckingham Room, Guildhall, Gresham Street, London EC2V 7HH from 11am-3pm Friday 25th March 2011.
This is a chance for former workers to talk about their experiences of the trade union movement in the post Second World War period.
It is a free and open event, with lunch included.
This event is part of the Working Lives of the Thames Gateway Project
For more information please contact Eastside Community Heritage on 0208 553 4343 or by clicking here.
Skills for the Future
New Pathways project funded by the Heritage Lottery fund Eastside is recruiting for a training support Officer and for 4 training positions for more information click here.
Eastside Community Heritage on BBC
Click here to view the BBC London article ‘London’s industrial past revisited at Guildhall’
Click here to see ‘Looking back at life on the Docks’ on BBC London
Click here to see the BBC article on Sharing Stratford’s Stories
New Videos
We are pleased to announce the addition of new videos to our site. To view ‘Playing In West Ham’ or the ‘Ireland’ Trailer then click here.
Now available for download!
Young Olympic Tour Guides.
Young Olympic Tour Guides
Elderly residents of Tower Hamlets shared their knowledge and experience of the area with local primary school children to create an intergenerational and uniquely personal walk down memory lane. The young people ran tours to the Olympic site View Tube where an exhibition of photos and memories documented the Oral History interviews that the participants recorded. The tour and accompanying map are now available for download here.
Disabled Young People’s Project
On Wednesday 30 June, AbPhab’s final film, Turn Back Time, was launched. The event was a huge success and the budding filmmakers received certificates for their hard-work.
Skills for the Future
Eastside makes history and provides Oral History training opportunities.
We are pleased to confirm, that we have been awarded significant funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) to develop a Skills for the Future programme.
This programme will centre on training in oral history to Black and Ethnic Minority communities.
Eastside’s Skills for the Future programme will allow 12 people to be trained in oral history over the next three years. Black and ethnic minority participants will be targeted as these are under-represented in the heritage industry. The trainees will often work on projects which tell the story of such communities. At the end of the training participants will have the opportunity to awarded an NVQ – the first time such a qualification will be available in oral history. NVQ training will start in November 2010. Please check the website for further details nearer the time.
Do you remember the Wapping Dispute?
We are collecting and recording memories of the 1986 – 87 strike against the sacking of over 5,000 print workers by News International. The strike was pivotal for both the printing industry and the British union movement. Were you a print worker, a News International employee, a trade unionist, a demonstrator or a resident of Wapping?
Do you remember the days of Fortress Wapping if so contact email Judith .
Click here for a small selection of audio clips detailing the Wapping Dispute.
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