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Progress update CC7

Support community groups to record, maintain, celebrate and share their cultural heritage through community based projects, events, festivals and activities.

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Progress update:

The Dales Countryside Museum (DCM) is supporting with various projects:

  • 'Hidden History of the Dales': exhibition and events at the museum
  • '50 years remembered': an Oral history project with the Wensleydale School
  • 'Our Voices': recording dialect in the Dales with students from Craven College
  • A heritage gardening project with volunteers
  • Young Archaeologists group based at DCM
  • Regular demonstrations and events involving traditional skills and crafts
  • Providing a research facility for tracing family and local history
  • Providing adequate archival storage for local photographs
  • 'Community Window' project involving the Dalesplay nursery, Youth Club, Brownies, Friends of the Museum and residents of Sycamore Hall.  This aims to create designs for replacement windows in the museum.

Last updated April 2008

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