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Jenny Jenkins - My LHI Story
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Jenny Jenkins - My LHI Story
Location: Devon
Jenny Jenkins is the Chairman of Braunton Museum Trustees. Here she talks about her part in the 'Beating the Bar' project.
We’re a very small group of volunteers at Braunton Museum, and none of us had any experience of recording oral history.
Like many small charities, we didn’t really know much about the process of getting grants. But it was surprisingly easy to fill in the forms. I downloaded the relevant pages from the LHI website and once we’d organised the funding we were able to pay someone to do the bulk of taping the oral histories.
The idea for our ‘Beating the Bar’ project came from two of our Museum Trustees who were actually mariners themselves and had gone out on the sailing vessels.
Even though the actual project is finished now, there are still a lot of things happening involving the seafarers. We’ve already had one slide show based on the project, with more and different photographs and some new tales to tell.
One of the old chaps splices rope beautifully, puts ships in bottles and makes models of the Braunton vessels. He’s making models for the museum, and we hope to have some of his work on display at another slide show we’re planning for March. We’d like to interest some of the local schools and young people, because he’d really like to pass on his skills.
Lots of useful contacts have been made through this project and many more people have been made aware of the existence of the museum. We’ve had a lot of publicity through our local newspaper, the North Devon Journal, which has always been very helpful to us and we’ve recruited some new volunteers.
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