Books delivered

18th June 2019

After a pause in all activities, we have delivered books to some of the schools and local libraries. Our sound pods are to go into public places. You might hear some oral history when you go to the library or as you wait in the dentist, or doctor’s surgery.

At the moment we’re in the process of developing a heritage resource associated with the book. It will mean people can go from reading the story about Wigton’s gasworks in the book, ‘Stinging Nettles, Skating in Clogs and other Wigton stories’, and then go online to read more about how gas was made. The pages will describe the development of the gas industry in the UK and there’ll be new pictures by children, quizzes and clips from the people we interviewed. The intention is that the resource will show how Wigton is part of the bigger national picture. We will develop this resource for this book and then we hope, for more books about Cumbria and beyond.

Book delivery

18th June 2019

After a pause in all activities, we have delivered books to some of the schools and local libraries. Our sound pods are to go into public places. You might hear some oral history when you go to the library or as you wait in the dentist, or doctor’s surgery.

At the moment we’re in the process of developing a heritage resource associated with the book. It will mean people can go from reading the story about Wigton’s gasworks in the book, ‘Stinging Nettles, Skating in Clogs and other Wigton stories’, and then go online to read more about how gas was made. The pages will describe the development of the gas industry in the UK and there’ll be new pictures by children, quizzes and clips from the people we interviewed. The intention is that the resource will show how Wigton is part of the bigger national picture. We will develop this resource for this book and then we hope, for more books about Cumbria and beyond.

Exhibition

22nd May 2019

The exhibition of young people’s work went down a storm. Children from Thomlinson Junior School and St Cuthbert’s Primary Schools, year 6 came to see the work of the children who did the pictures for the book last year. How impressed there were with the drawings and paintings. You can hear some of the clips and soon there will be some great pictures of the work posted for you to see a gallery of the work the children did last year.