In the beginning...

If you’re planning to set up an oral/community history project it’s important to identify what it is you’re aiming to achieve. A clear objective is what’s needed. It is all about involving the community and so it’s a good idea to get people’s views on what they’d like to see happen.

How often do you hear someone say:
"If only we’d recorded so and so before they died…what stories they used to tell..” Or else there’s the often spoken lament:"Of course all these photographs will be thrown in the dustbin when I’m gone, no one will be interested in them will they?" The answer, of course, is yes they will.

Preserving these links with a past way of life and families' and a community’s heritage is vital for future generations. It helps everyone understand the past and how it affected and involved people who had the same thoughts, feelings and ambitions as themselves – just different clothes and a less technologically advanced way of life!

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