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Landscape and Livlihoods in Upper Teesdale
Location: Darlington
The Group is for children with special needs, providing support for out of school activities. Working with a network of local people, the group would like to research and interpret the heritage of important peoples who have shaped the landscape or been influenced in their work by this. The project would then interpret and spread awareness of this through 30 textile hangings each with a framed print to explain the research into the individual and their role in the life of the area.
A location square, based on O.S. maps, will also be created for each hanging using traditional Teesdale Quilting Techniques. The children themselves will undertake the textile and quilting work, supported by experienced volunteers and a textile artist. A historian will help them research the local heritage. The hangings will be displayed in a mobile exhibition, and awareness spread through the group’s website and a booklet, with training for volunteers and children in ICT and desk-top publishing. Volunteers will make exhibitions themselves, including a calligraphy volunteer, and extra support will be given to children with special needs. Research and interpretation will include Roman Soldiers, the Saxon Princes who governed the Dales, Lead Miners, Quarrymen, and the Dam Builders.
This project is researching the traditions and culture of local peoples that are important to local heritage, and setting this within the local landscape. Letters of support will be sent by 4 local primary schools, Middleton Youth Group, Middleton Mental Health Group, Newbiggin Chapel, English Nature and Craft Works CA for Adults with Special Needs, showing a very good level of collaboration.
Members of the Teesdale Quilting Society and local Historians have offered a very good level of ‘in kind’ help. The project also offers very good training to volunteers and children, and will also benefit tourism in the area. The use of Teesdale Quilting techniques will help volunteers to preserve this traditional skill and keep it alive. The group have also listed David Bellamy as a specialist adviser and included his ‘in kind’ contributions!
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Green Explorers Community Association |
| Project Contact |
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Anne Noble |
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Lilac cottage, Hutton Magna, Richmond, North Yorkshire |
| Project Postcode |
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DL11 7HQ |
| Finishing Date |
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31 Dec 2005 |
| Grants: |
Heritage Lottery Fund: £18590
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