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With several members of the UWHG engaged in the Threshfield Quarry Project (January-March 2008), we felt that we needed some advice on a venture which is quite a departure from our normal archaeological activities. Now that the Quarry has closed down, and is destined for extensive redevelopment, its history urgently needs to be recorded. The project is our opportunity to assess the Quarry’s place within the historic landscape where the UWHG have carried out so many of our field surveys and excavations over the past few years. Now we need to record the physical remains of the more recent limestone industry before the redevelopment begins, consigning the 19th and 20th Century well and truly to the past, along with the prehistoric and medieval.
As part of this exercise, an element of “social archaeology” has been added – we will be uncovering part of the Quarry’s past by interviewing some of the local residents.
To help us in this new venture, at a workshop with us in Linton Village Hall, Janet Fletcher from Leeds University, shared her experience of working with Age Concern’s oral history project in Rotherham.
Using filmed interviews Janet demonstrated some good and bad interview techniques, and gave us some useful tips such as:
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