Stanhoe Archive
Stanhoe Archive is the local history group. We are active in transcribing documents dating from the 14th century to the 1970s, collecting old photos, interviewing Stanhoe residents for our oral history collection, and researching the history of the village through maps and fieldwalking.
photo: Pamela Austin
Stanhoe Archive members with the grant notification from Awards for All on 20 May 2008: (l-r) Ken Foskett, Mary-Anne Hallinan, Pamela Austin, Charles Butcher, Geraldine Butcher, Rosemary Brown, Terry Austin, Mary Lancefield
You can see our photo collection here, and sound recordings here.
In 2008 we were the happy recipients of a grant of £2,590 from the National Lottery under the Awards for All scheme. We have used this money to buy a professional-quality digital recording machine for our oral history work, a digital projector and screen for presentations, and other equipment and materials for displays and conservation.
If you would like to share documents, photos or memories relating to Stanhoe, please get in touch with our chairperson (tel 01485 518033).
Membership of Stanhoe Archive is open to anyone with an interest in Stanhoe and is currently free of charge.
Stanhoe Archive at Open Gardens 2011
An invitation was received by Stanhoe Archive to mount an exhibition of the group’s collection in the Reading Room, and a three-part display was put together to inform and involve residents.
The sign outside read “Treasures, Photographs, Recordings” along with an invitation to “come inside and help us”, and bunting, kindly loaned by the Stanhoe & Barwick Women’s Institute, helped to draw attention to the Reading Room from outside in Cross Lane.
Charles Butcher filled several tables with items he had found around Stanhoe with (and without) his metal detector, and visitors were very interested in these artefacts, which dated from neolithic to 20th-century, with Roman, Saxon and medieval in between.
A slide show was also set up, so that visitors could see the many photographs collected since the Stanhoe Archive was established just a few years ago, in 2007. In addition, an interactive computer enabled visitors to listen to sound recordings of their choice, from the two dozen or so interviews with present and former residents of the village of Stanhoe.
photo: Pamela Austin
On a series of display boards, almost twenty photographs of people in Stanhoe were displayed: from the Home Guard to Stanhoe School, from the Queen’s coronation celebrations to the more recent jubilees, from workers in the fields to football teams, and from maypole dancers to children’s Christmas parties. The purpose of this was partly the serious business of identifying who the people in the photographs were, and we were very grateful for the many names provided, which will help to make our record keeping as comprehensive as possible.
Grateful thanks are extended to everyone who contributed to the success of the day’s Archive display.
Links
Our page on CommunityArchives.org.uk