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School Days - Using and adding to the CADHAS Archives
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School Days - Using and adding to the CADHAS Archives
Location: Gloucestershire
The CADHAS Archive aims to advance the knowledge and awareness of local heritage by investigating, gathering and making the material available through a public archive in Chipping Campden. Our most recent project, School Days, has been a great success …
Did you say “pax” or “crucis”? Did you play British Bulldog or French skipping? Or was it called “Elastics”? Visitors to the old Police Station, Chipping Campden, on Saturday 11th October 2003 were greeted by a teacher brandishing a cane and an overgrown schoolgirl, introducing a CADHAS exhibition about school days, past and present.
In the weeks leading up to the exhibition, local primary school children did their own research: asking parents what games they played and comparing them with today’s skipping rhymes and collecting fads. Their work was shown alongside various games and toys borrowed from the Cotswolds Museums Service. Visitors were encouraged to add their own memories to the display and parents showed their children how to play ‘Five Stones’ and diabolo – who was the more embarrassed?
Documents from the CADHAS Archives were also displayed to show how schooling had changed over the years and the histories of local schools. The exhibition included many old photographs which needed identification – leading to new facts being recorded. Another stand invited people to contribute their memories of taking time off school for harvesting – grain, potatoes, beans, onions – and many recalled gathering rosehips as part of the school day during and after WW11.
Over 350 people, young and old, joined in and by the end of the day, the displays were littered with notes, adding more information to the CADHAS Archives. This is part of a long term project on “Growing Up in Campden”. In the coming twelve months, CADHAS will be gathering the personal recollections of local people, across the generations, to build up an archive for future historians. CADHAS already has a collection of photographs, documents and oral recordings which are being used to make comparisons right back into the 19th century.
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