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Jenny Jenkins - My LHI Story
More about our Project
from Village Green magazine
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More about our Project
Location: Devon
Once we knew that we had been awarded a grant we looked around for someone to help. We were extremely lucky that Lizzie Potter was in a position to become our Project worker. She had worked on the 'North Devon on Disc' project involving all the Museums in North Devon and was a great asset to the Project.
We notified the local newspaper of our project and their feature brought forward other people with photographs and information about Braunton sailing vessels. Then we put on a display and short slide show of maritime photographs already in the Museum collection for everyone that was interested in taking part - to stimulate and develop their interest!
Once the oral histories had been taken they had to be transcribed - we could have done with a team of audio typists, but none appeared! Then the 'best bits' had to be put together to be published. Everything checked and OK'd by the participants, photographs chosen, discussions at to whether or not to include a map... but finally it was all done and "Braunton's Twentieth Century Mariners" was ready for sale. A set of the full transcriptions is also held at the Museum.
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