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Peninsula Stories
Location: Greenwich
The group will research and record local memories and the industrial heritage of the Greenwich Peninsula (the former "South Met" Gasworks generally known as the Dome site).
Stories and local history records take us back to the 1800's of "Greenwich Marsh". On the same site 200 years on we are in the early phases of a major housing development around the "Dome" - and the landscape has been extensively remodeled with groundwork and remediation of the "brownfields" left by the industry of the interviewing period.
By the river we can still identify the wharves and sites of industrial buildings that once thrived with local business such as whaling and rope making. The pubs and street names give us further clues, while on the pockets of foreshore still accessible to the public we can find old nails and fragments of clay pipe which are all part of the jigsaw that we will piece together to tell or remind us all of the amazing history of this area.
The children from Millennium and Meridian Primary schools will investigate the changing riverscape through inter-generational interviews and web-based dialogue focusing on the changes to industry and local life from 1930 to the present day.
Through a series of workshops with an oral history tutor, they will record the memories of local residents, who remember the river and its historical role. The over 50's Club will attend training sessions in IT and historical data recording, assisting with web based research; scanning images and documents from the local heritage centre.
One result will be the production of 2000 heritage trail maps providing a snapshot of a rapidly disappearing cultural heritage. t The project will provide a channel for local people (residents past and present) to express and explore what they know and value about the Peninsula. To this end we are pleased to hear from anyone who lives or works on or around the Peninsula as well as those who have lived or worked there in the past.
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Peninsula Project |
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Richard Sylvester (Co-ordinator)
(m) 07833 538143
richs@onetel.com
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SE10 0BG |
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Mar 06 |
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We welcome your memories and photos of the Peninsula-please get in touch!
Forum (Children and Young People's Service) (Summer 2005)
Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park
UK ONline - 0ver 50s group (Autumn 2005) |
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Heritage Lottery Fund: £12188
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