Notes on how to do oral history recordings or what to expect

The Hayle Churks app wins Award at Open Culture 2014

This is what the Collections Trust said, 'Hayle Oral History Project won the Collections on a Budget Award and its £500 prize, for its Hayle Churks mobile phone app. The judges said it was “a really commendable project, and a very good example of what can be achieved with collections on a limited budget”. Thank you again all who helped win this for Hayle! More info in the blog post about it on the left. Please take a look at the FREE Hayle Churks app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/hayle-churks/id777596532?mt=8. The award photo was taken by Greg Sigston

We Need History Detectives! Please interview your elderly relations & friends!

If you have a mobile phone or a digital camera or an MP3 player or a camcorder you should be able to record or film short interviews for the project. We would like to know old stories and legends as well as memories of the Hayle Area growing up, during the war, working life & fun days such as Hayle Regatta & Tea Treats. You will need to record the person giving their permission to use the interview in lectures, publications (print/ audio/ film/ CD), by libraries/ museums/ archives/ educational institutes and on the internet. Do they want their full name to be used or to remain anonymous? Better still we can email or send out a permission form - contact Lucy: hayle.history@btconnect.com 01736 753962

Some of our favourite Hayle websites

Oral History is really about your personal stories, so we’re interested in real tales about your parents, family life, school, work, social life, beach life, events in Hayle such as the Regatta, Carnival or Tea Treat, relationships and so on as well as stories and legends about the area you may have been told. If you can remember the stories but not the dates please don’t worry as oral history will be just a part of how we try to re-construct the history of Hayle and the surrounding area. Just hearing how you lived is an important part of understanding what the Hayle area was like and how people lived.

At the moment we are interviewing people that remember Hayle and the area around Hayle, (for example Connor Downs, Gwithian, Gwinear, Angarrack and St. Erth), who remember the area in the 20s, 30s and 40s. There are a lot of memories of Hayle during World War II as many US servicemen were stationed here building barges for D-Day and there were German and Italian Prisoners of War based in St. Erth.

I look forward to hearing from you and hope you enjoy our site.

Thank you, yours Lucy
Office: 01736 753962
Email: hayle.history@btconnect.com

Welcome to the Hayle Oral History Project & Hayle Churks app Blog

Wednesday, August 1, 2012