We are halfway through our Stall Stories Project. Children from two London Primary Schools, Colville and Stockwell, have made short documentaries exploring the history of their local street markets as told by stall holders and locals.

Both films were premiered in school assemblies with the young film makers showing their films at their own school followed by a Q&A. Then children from each school took their film back to their local market, setting up their very own pop-up cinema on a traditional market stall amidst the hustle and bustle to show the film to shoppers and stall holders with the young film makers on hand to answer questions. Each film has been really well received by everyone who has seen it.

See these wonderful films on Brixton Market and Portobello Road Market online now on the project website..

www.stallstories.org.uk

Watching the film at the childrens Portobello Road Pop-Up Cinema

Children from Stockwell Primary School on their pop up cinema on Brixton Market.

A unique, one-off, bus tour of Poole’s working landscape on 24 and 26 July as part of the Our Working Lives oral history project that has explored people’s working lives in the 40s and 50s.

Travel through time on a 1959 Routemaster bus for a mystery tour to hear a soundtrack of Poole’s working landscape.

The tour, organised by Joe Stevens of digital:works, will take visitors to areas in Poole not usually visited by commercial tour packages. The tour will snake through Poole’s industrial estates, as well as other interesting features of Poole’s economic landscape.

During the tour you will hear everyday people talk about their working life, about Poole history and how its infrastructure has developed. Interspersed you will hear about life today in Poole and its possible economic future.

Joe told us how “This special event will present history live in the ‘real’ world, so that history merges with the present. It will allow passengers to hear people describe places that no longer exists while travelling through these landscapes”.

These tours are free, but places are limited. To guarantee your seat on this exclusive experience, phone Poole Museum on 01202 262600.

Leaving Poole Museum at 11am, the tour is expected to last 90 minutes.

Finish back at Poole Museum where you can visit the latest exhibition ‘The Way We Worked: earning and spending in 1950s Poole’.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Organised as part of Our Working Lives project – www.ourworkinglives.org.

Poole Museum and the exhibition are free, fully accessible, and open Monday – Saturday between 10 am and 5 pm, Sunday between 12pm and 5pm.  Poole Museum, 4 High Street, Poole BH15 1BW.

The Our Working Lives Audio CD is back from the duplicators. Just need the book from the printers now to put together.

Track Listing

1. School (3:02)
2. Careers advice (4:27)
3. We did as we were told (8:05)
4. Office work (7:50)
5. Men at work (6:40)
6. Women at work (8:48)
7. Farm work (6:58)
8. Shop work (9:29)
9. Apprenticeships (5:58)
10. National Service (2:50)