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School Days - Using and adding to the CADHAS Archives
Launch of 'Trading Places'
Chipping Campden - an LHI story
Chipping Campden Archives - involving a local school
Chipping Campden - taking the project further
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Launch of 'Trading Places'
Location: Gloucestershire
‘Trading Places’ is the new book from CADHAS, launched on 10 September 2004 The book is a compilation of photographs and memories of some Campden shops from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s.
Barbara Howe (nee Wheatcroft) was a little girl in the 1930’s:
We paid our bill monthly, and like many people kept a
small note book in which Mum would write her weekly order,
it would be totted up at the end of the month and promptly paid.
Mr Powell could add two columns of figures at a time,
I thought that was brilliant.
Since 2000, the CADHAS Community Archive Group has been scanning borrowed photographs and other items into our computer and building up a collection of recorded memories.
Bill Merriman remembers the ironmonger’s:
Mr Elsley, he used to go to Birmingham to Hood’s Stores, and he’d come back with a bath or a container full up of everything you could think of – padlocks, china, ladles, could be anything. Then he’d have what you’d call a job lot in the shop, he’d sell it well you might pay 6d for it, 9d for it, 2s. for it.
‘Trading Places’ was the first project, in 2001. We put on a display of photos from the Archives and local people began to lend their own photographs, adverts, billheads and documents for copying. Some existing recordings formed the basis for the collection of taped memories about the changing nature of local shops.
A year ago we started to put the book together with the help of a graphic designer. It was not easy matching photos and memories to make coherent pages and tell the story of each shop. There were many memories which had no matching photos, particularly shops in the front rooms of houses, which no longer exist.
We launched ‘Trading Places’ with an Exhibition in the Old Police Station which houses our Local History Room. On the Friday afternoon a class came from a local primary school; they looked at the displays, tried on the old yoke for carrying pails of milk and talked to some of the people whose memories are included in the book.
In the evening we held a Launch Party for the thirty-six contributors and friends. Over 200 hundred people visited the Exhibition in the next two days and book-selling began in earnest!
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