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The Radstock Museum Oral History Video Archive Project
Location: Bath and NE Somerset
Established in 1985, The Radstock Museum has developed and maintained a record of the community’s past particularly in respect of its history as a centre for coal mining in Somerset. The museum’s collection is principally artefacts and photographs. In 2002 a group was formed to develop the museum’s oral history archive.
Last June the museum was offered funding to create an easily accessible archive of oral and video testimony principally of former miners from the Somerset coal fields as well as other members of the community such as former railway workers, homemakers, retailers, farmers, teachers, doctors, clergymen etc. The project aims to make a record of what life was like in the area leading up to the last coal mine closing in 1973.
40 or more individuals will be interviewed on video to a studio standard on digital format -Mini DV tape. These recordings will then be transferred and stored on an interactive dvd format which will be accessible to museum visitors. A selection of the recordings will also be made available on the museum’s existing website.
We believe that the creation of the archive in this way will provide the museum with an invaluable resource which researchers, documentary filmmakers and curators will make extensive use of in history making projects for incalculable years to come. The museum can already foresee using this new archive to create interactive video displays within the museum exhibits as well as produce a video for sale in the museum shop – a project we intend to apply for funding for in the future.
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Radstock Museum Society |
| Project Contact |
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Margaret Rowe |
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Radstock |
| Project Postcode |
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BA3 3ER |
| Finishing Date |
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31 December 2004 |
| See also |
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Radstock Museum Society website |
| Local Community Involvement / Partnerships: |
| Somerset District Miners’ Welfare Trust, the Women’s institute, University of the Third Age (U3A), the local medical practice, the local Rotary club, religious groups, schools and colleges, the local tourism forum, Norton Radstock town council and Bath and Northeast Somerset council |
| Grants: |
Heritage Lottery Fund: £24,861
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