The Peninsula Quarry Industry Oral History Project

Kayleigh Milden  has tasked us  pass around this invite for the coffee morning, it looks like a facinating project. We'll try an see if we can get a presentation sometime! 

  

Quarry Memories Coffee Morning

Parish Hall at Upton Cross

Monday 27^th June 2011

10:30-12:00

Free of charge

The Peninsula Quarry Industry Oral History Project is exploring the granite and limestone quarries of Devon and Cornwall.  Quarrying is a major part of the two counties’ history and continues to leave an important inheritance to the culture and landscape of the region.   It’s the aim of this project to add a new ‘human dimension’ to this history by recording a series of oral testimonies with the communities related to the quarrying industry of Devon and Cornwall. Oral histories that you help record will create a unique archive and will also develop into a touring exhibition telling the story of quarrying across Devon and Cornwall.  This is a partnership project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peninsula Quarry Industry Social History Trust, Cornwall Council, Plymouth City Council, the University of Plymouth and Geevor Tin Mine Museum. 

If you have any memories about quarrying we would love to meet you.

Come along to our coffee morning to meet the project team and find out more. 

If you have any old photographs or documents relating to quarrying please bring them along too.

If you would like book a place at the coffee morning please contact

Kayleigh Milden (Project Officer) by Monday 20^th June.

Tel: (01752) 306671 Email: kayleigh.milden@plymouth.gov.uk

Peninsula Quarry Industry Social History Trust, Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AJ