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.
Upcoming Events
Story of London
All events are free
Please RSVP chloe@ech.org.uk or phone 0208 5534343
Young Olympic Tour Guides.
Friday 1st October 4pm -6pm
Young Olympic Tour Guides
Exhibition on display at the View Tube by the Olympic Park throughout the Story of London 1st-10th October
Elderly residents of Tower Hamlets will be sharing 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 will be running tours to the Olympic site View Tube where an exhibition of photos and memories will document the Oral History interviews that the participants have recorded. The tour and accompanying map will also be available for download and exhibited at the View Tube.
Screening: Samuel Williams & Son – Dagenham Dock
Saturday 2nd October
Valence House Museum
Discover the vision of Samuel Williams and the company established at Dagenham’s Dock. See the new museum gallery on the history of dock, view the archive collection and hear the stories of the workers. The amazing film collection from the Samuel Williams & Son Archive will be screened for the first time along with films inspired by this collection.
- 1pm Gallery tour with an introduction to the Samuel Williams & Son Archives (on display throughout the day in the Archive & Local Studies Centre)
- 2:15pm Film Screening: Introduction talk by Tahlia Coombs Borough Archivist on the Samuel Williams Film Collection
Followed by:
Short film screenings in association with Eastside Community Heritage: Working lives of the Thames Gateway, focusing on the employee experiences at Samuel Williams & Son and a recent project working with the teenage AbPhab Group (based in Dagenham) on the History of Barking & Dagenham and disabled workers.
The Apprentice
Tuesday 5th October 2010, 2-4pm
Greenwich Heritage Centre
The Vickers Machine Gun Factory, Crayford
Former and present apprentices are invited to a brief talk on apprenticeships at Vickers and the Royal Arsenal and are invited to share their experiences. All former and current apprenticeships are invited and anyone with an interest in the subject.
Thursday 7th October 2010 5-7pm
Greenwich Heritage Centre
A short film made by children from the Howbury Centre in Slade Green, the film will explore apprentices in the past and present.
Living in Barking – Hidden from History
Friday 8th October, 7pm
Eastbury Manor House – Eastbury Square, Barking
Dr. Bala Prasad
Documentary Film and touring exhibition
In 1939 Dr Prasad moved to Barking to become a general practitioner on the Becontree estate. During the Second World War he served as an air-raid warden. His Ripple Road surgery was reputed to house the largest Morrison shelter in the town capable of protecting a whole waiting room. He died in 1959.
The project is working with the Barking and Dagenham BME forum, and Valance House Museum to document a hidden history of Dr Prasad, and the local BME community living today in Barking.
For further information on any of the events or to book please contact
Office@ech.org.uk 0208553 4343
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 or Will.
