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Remembering
Wivenhoe: Our Community Oral History The
Wivenhoe community oral history project, Remembering Wivenhoe, held a very
successful meeting at the William Loveless Hall on Tuesday 15 February,
2005. An audience of a hundred people came to an evening of `Pictures and Voices', combining extracts from new recordings of Wivenhoe memories from the project with slides presented by Don Smith (with support from Janet Turner, Brian Sinclair, and Mike Downs of the Nottage Institute). The meeting was opened by Rev David Thomas, chairman of the oral history committee, and Paul Thompson, director of the project, who explained that because of the enthusiasm of the volunteers supporting the project over sixty people have now been recorded, and the evening gave just a taste of them: many others were to be included in the future book from the project. Opening with the era of the big yachts, including the voice of skipper Ernie Vince and a photograph of King George V at the wheel next to Wivenhoe's Captain Turner, Don Smith then presented a sequence of linked photographs and voices on the fishing, the shipyard, schools, shops and pubs. Halfway there was a break for refreshments, with much exchange of other memories within the audience. Brenda Corti |
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