Sunday 17 April 2016

A busy day for Telford on Film!

 
Two outings for Telford on Film today! A showing of the newly digitised film clips by Media Archives Central England at Southwater in the morning and with Madeley History Group in the afternoon. It's really fulfilling to be able to show this material that otherwise wouldn't been seen. So very grateful to HLF for the grant and the superb work that MACE have done in restoring the original films.
We did a 11.30am -12.30pm slot at Southwater and although, unbelievably we'd woken up to a white blanket of snow around the town, the sun was streaming gloriously through the windows when we set the film rolling.



 

Thanks to Madeley History Group for the invitation to join their film afternoon. There was a really great crowd of history enthusiasts and the TONT films complemented the History Group's cine  films both in style and era. Always a pleasure to work with them.
 
 

Wednesday 13 April 2016

Reading Down Memory Lane

A visit to Apley Court   
We've been at Apley Court, one of the Wrekin Housing Trust schemes, today with our Reading Down Memory Lane presentation. This was organised through the Senior Citizens Forum. These presentations are a mix of the TONT photos and reflections and opportunities to reminisce about Telford and places people have lived.
 
Always lovely to meet people in residential locations and share lots of lovely memories.


 

Wednesday 2 March 2016

A great talk!


 
What a fabulous talk David gave to illustrate the work that he was involved with during his time with the TDC. We were so pleased to see a lovely crowd of 45 people listen to his memories and had some great questions to round off with too. Thanks for coming along everyone.

Wednesday 24 February 2016

Creating Telford's Green Environment - a talk by David Wassell

 
 
Looking forward to hosting this at Wellington Library. A great way to learn first-hand what  landscaping went on with the TDC and use the digitised photographs as a back-drop.

Friday 22 January 2016

Telford on film premiere


We’re looking forward to premiering the new films that we’ve received back from MACE. They've done a fantastic job for us of digitising individual clips and creating two compilations which we think people will enjoy seeing. Lights... cameras... roll...!!



Wednesday 16 December 2015

Find out about TONT on You Tube


We’ve created a little film which brings together all the elements of what we’ve been working on. A first for us by  learning how to use Movie Maker – hope people like it.
 

Tuesday 1 December 2015

Sutton Hill Resident Group

 
Thanks to Nadeem at Sutton Hill Community Centre for inviting me to the Residents Group last night. I was able to tell everyone about the project, and show some of the photos. We’re hoping that we can go back to Shropshire Archives in 2016 and look for photos of Sutton Hill in the making. Wonderful as site preparations started in March 1966 – the Archbishop of Canterbury dedicated a stone at Sutton Hill Pastoral Centre in July of that year and first houses were occupied in March 1967.