"Heritage Skills for the Future" - Archive Project

 In July 2015 "Heritage Skills for the Future" trainees Hayley Du Buisson and Sophie Kembrey delivered the first part of their project for the Civic Society.

Starting with several boxes of mixed documents dating back to the 1960's they sorted, evaluated and catalogued the entire collection.  The collection is now available to members and friends for research and general interest.  

The catalogue/ index of contents can be found HERE or by going to our website news page and looking under "Book and Document Archive" then "Archived Society Documents" 

Thanks to Hayley and Sophie, Stockport MBC Heritage Department and the Heritage Lottery Fund - Skills for the Future Programme, who funded the project.

Part 2 of their project, the video oral history interview with our president Angus Yeaman, will be delivered shortly and will be made available to the public on our website and on loan to members and friends. 

Archiving and Filming with Heritage Skills for the Future Trainees

In May 2015 council officers Margaret Myerscough and Aimee Teare introduced two Heritage Lottery Funded Heritage Skills for the Future Trainees, Hayley Du Buisson and  Sophie Kembrey, to work with the civic society. 

Their task was to collate and archive the society's documents dating back to the sixties and to film an oral history with our President, Angus Yeaman. We imediately gelled with Hayley and Sofie, and our matched enthusiasm for the project led to a further meeting to discuss the project in detail and to introduce Angus to the trainees.

On Friday 24th July, we met at Angus's house to receive the archived material and to film Angus talking about his time with the society which dates back to 1971. Hayley, Sophie and society members Gillian and Alan Postill had worked together to compile a list of questions to steer the interview.

We were delighted that Hayley and Sophie were able to call on the professional help of their friend Greg, who works for BBC sport, to do the filming and between them they soon turned Angus's lounge into a film studio to film the interview and take photographs. It was lovely to remember Faith Yeaman who sadly died about 4 years ago but photos of her around the house reminded us of the contribution both Faith and Angus had made to the society over many years; they both served as chairman during their time with the society from the early 70's.

It is evident that Hayley and Sophie have spent much time and effort in sorting out our archive documents. The documents are now collated and preserved for the future and will be made available to the public for research and general interest. 

We look forward to receiving a copy of the video which will be made available to the public on our website and on loan to members and friends.

Civic Society Early Days - Oral History

Our president, Angus Yeaman, has agree to provide an oral history of his memories of the early years of Marple Civic Society.

Society President Angus Yeaman

At a meeting on 7th May 2015 with Aimee Teare and Margaret Myerscough of Stockport MBC, the possibility of a "Skills for the Future" trainee carrying out the interview was discussed.  

They agreed that this could be a trainee project for later this year when the new intake of trainees are in post. 

"Skills for the Future" is a Heritage Lottery Fund Programme, run by Stockport MBC, to provide paid training placements of one year to people looking to work in the heritage sector. 

Marple Civic Society Document Archive

Marple Civic Society has a large collection of archive documents including minutes, newsletters, newspaper cuttings, miscellaneous reports and correspondence.  

We also have an extensive collection of photographs which have been digitised and uploaded to our website. The originals are on long term loan to SMBC Library Services.

At a meeting on 7th January 2015 Alan and Gillian Postill met with Aimee Teare (Senior Programme Management and External Funding Officer) and Margaret Myerscough (Senior Librarian, Heritage and Archive) to discuss a project to sort, collate, evaluate and preserve our other documents to make them available for research and general interest.  It was agreed that a "Skills for the Future" trainee could carry out the work starting later this year.

"Skills for the Future" is a Heritage Lottery Fund Programme, run by Stockport MBC, to provide paid training placements of one year to people looking to work in the heritage sector.