A reminiscence session with the TocH Group from Gorleston

Courtesy of Steve Smith

Information about the aims of the Our Town Project

By Laura Matthews

The Our Town Project aims to create a Community Archive by recording peoples' experiences of living and working in Great Yarmouth over the last 60 years.

The Our Great Yarmouth website aims to involve as many local people as possible in the Our Town project, we would like people to contribute information and photographs about their memories of Great Yarmouth sparked by the material already on the site. The information provided will be edited by our team of volunteers and uploaded onto the site for everyone to share.

The project is running over a period of 18 months from September 2006 - March 2008 and it is based at Time and Tide museum of Great Yarmouth Life.

We aim to work with individuals and community groups to record local peoples' experiences through:

• Oral history interviews
• Reminiscence workshops
• Short films
• Photography projects
• Collecting artefacts and ephemera
  We are particularly interested in 3 key themes:

• Working life
• Leisure and popular culture
• Home and Family life

We want to use the information collected during the project to mount an exhibition at Time and Tide. We will also create a valuable community archive for future generations.