Livingston
Station Women's Group
5th
March 2010
The
Group have completed their first project and Harry Knox treated
the children of the group to a guided tour of the museum.
We presented the group with certificates to mark their status
as “Young Historian” as a way of appreciating
their hard work in organising the interview day, and contributing
their oral history recordings to the museum collection.
21st
October 2009
The following
photographs are from the “Young Historians” Day
held at the Deans Youth Centre.
The
interviews were conducted by the children of the Group and
all interviews using an Olympus WS-560M recorder, with Olympus
tie-mics.
13th
October 2009:
Congratulations
to everyone of The Livingston Station Women's Group! The Group
have completed their first project for the Shale Villages
project and was judged a success by all who took part. On
2 October at the Deans Youth Centre a series of interviews
took place, which were also photographed. The children of
the group interviewed their grandparents and others in the
local community who lived through the shale years. After the
interviews, the children and their grandparents, played the
games of many years gone by. With the aid of a reminiscence
box provided by West Lothian Museums Development Officer,
Elizabeth Henderson, there was a great deal of fun.
27th
September 2009:
The
first project undertaken by the group was to look at a way
in which local history could be better appreciated by both
the people of the group and their children.
Working
with the Project Officer and Linda Quigley, Community Education
Worker from the Almondbank Resource Centre, as guides and
mentors, the group decided on a project plan that would allow
them to learn, as a group, under the direction of the project
officer how to conduct oral histories. From this learning
experience, the members of the group will then individually
pass that knowledge on to their children. The equipment used
for this is the Olympus WS-560W digital recorder with tie-mics.
The next
stage of development is for an afternoon session to be scheduled
at the Deans Youth Centre, during which time, people with
memories of the shale times, or of growing up during the end
years of the shale era (which may include grandparents), will
be interviewed by the children. The children will ask question
about what it was like to live during that time and what it
was like to grow up during that time. For example what kind
of games were played, what were the toys like?
From
the information gained in this session, the children will
not only have an understanding of their place in local and
family history, but they will understand the inevitability
of change. By looking at and understanding change through
the games children played almost fifty years apart. A further
session is planned where, using a reminiscence box provided
by the West Lothian Museums Service, the children will spend
an afternoon playing the games from fifty or more years ago. |
