News Archive

November 2007: 23 :: Website User Survey

*Helping Wild Rose to Grow* Wild Rose has achieved a remarkable amount of work on limited funding. We are about to make a major application to the Heritage Lottery Fund and would like your help to develop Wild Rose over the next five years. We would be really grateful if you could spare a few minutes to tell us what you think of our site. Please click on the ‘website users survey’ link below, and choose ‘open’ in order to view the questionnaire. Once you have completed the questionnaire, please save it to your computer, then email it to dean@eventus.org.uk All responses will remain confidential and your contact details will not be shared with any third parties. We would be grateful to receive completed questionnaires by 12noon on *Friday 21 December*.
June 2007: 19 :: SINGING/SKIPPING GAMES AND RHYMES

We have gathered a few rhymes and songs about childhood in our interviews, such as used for skipping, plot night, Christmas and other occasions. This is a request to everyone who may remember a song, rhyme or ditty to do with play or special days or events.; 19 :: SHEILA’S STORY

Local resident *Sheila O’Brien*, wrote a story about her great aunt Hannah in the 1970’s and recently donated it to us for inclusion on our website. Read about the womanly wisdom of a local character and the ways of the past, which are slipping away and perhaps gone, but not forgotten.; 19 :: MIDGLEY PROJECT

In our ‘Age to Age’ project, 2008 onwards, Wild Rose Heritage and Arts wants to work with the *Midgley History Group* looking at a potential history project in Halifax and the Upper Calder Valley.; 19 :: THEN AND NOW

Volunteer *Jefferson Hammond* has taken about twenty photographs of old Hebden Bridge, kindly donated to us by the Alice Longstaff Collection, and taken modern day versions of the same photographs.; 19 :: OUR NEXT PROJECT

Over the next nine months, we will be completing a planning project, hopefully in preparation for a further five-year project, called *‘Age to Age’*, which will collect oral histories within the upper Calder valley.; 18 :: MAY MORNING MEETINGS

Interviewee *Glenda Gibson* has donated to us information on the outdoor prayer meetings in the Colden valley in early May every year. Her father Vincent was one of those who worked hard to revive and organise the event in the 1930’s. We will enter this onto our website soon, but were wondering if anyone else out there remembers or attended the meetings and could provide us with additional information.
May 2007: 19 :: STORYTELLING

As part of our plan to make oral history accessible in a variety of ways, storyteller *Rachel Loise* has gone through the Generations Talking transcripts and devised a thirty minute story.