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Elderly to give youngsters tips on courting as part of Shoreditch heritage project
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Elderly to give youngsters tips on courting as part of Shoreditch heritage project
Location: Hackney
November 2005
Young and old will dig deep into Hackney’s past in Local Heritage Initiative scheme
How dating has changed since before the War will be one of the topics explored by elders groups working with youngsters in a local heritage project.
The Sharp End active retirement group, Hoxton Hall youth group and the Geffrye Museum will link with elders groups and youth groups to investigate how childhood and play, courting, family life and crime and safety has changed in Shoreditch over the past century.
A Local Heritage Initiative (LHI) grant of nearly £11,000 will help to pay for training sessions to develop photography, historical research, interviewing and video skills to produce 100 DVDs of memories.
The groups will also investigate how the Second World War changed the landscape by studying old maps from the Building Exploratory group. The results of the project will be exhibited for 3 months in the Geffrye Museum and at community presentations to schools, youth clubs and older people’s clubs.
Jackie Brett, who works for the Sharp End (Seniors Health and Active Retirement Project), says: “One of the fascinating aspects of this scheme will be the interaction between the older people and the youngsters. I’m sure there’ll be some lively discussions about what how things like dating and crime and safety have changed over the years in Shoreditch.”
The group has raised £9500 of in-kind contributions and has professional support from the Geffrye Museum, Hackney Historical Society, Sutton House (the National Trust property), and The Building Exploratory.
Lorraine Huggett, the Countryside Agency’s Local Heritage Initiative Adviser for the South East Region, says: “This project is well planned and will involve the two generations who’ll work together to find out how everyday life has altered over the last 60 or 70 years. By looking at topics like dating, childhood and play as well as family life and crime, they’ll be able to give a full and absorbing picture of how life generally and particularly for the people of Shoreditch, has changed.”
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