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The Reminiscence Centre in Blackheath, south-east London, is our base.
The Centre is located opposite Blackheath rail station.
Buses 54, 89, 108 and 202 stop outside the Centre.
Reminiscence Centre Re-Development 2012
The Centre will close at lunchtime on Friday 23rd December 2011 and will not re-open to the public until the building work is complete in November 2012.
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Bakehouse Community Library - Opening Times
Winter/Spring 2012
Monday - Thursday
1.00 - 6.00pm
Friday
10.00am - 1.30pm
Sunday
10.00am - 3.00pm
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Centre News - a new Community Library Service
Age Exchange is developing the Reminiscence Centre to improve facilities for our established services and to house a community library service. This will be achieved in stages.
From 6 June 2011, 1,000 books plus daily newspapers and periodicals will be available in the Reminiscence Centre.
From 1 August 2011, the book stock will increase to 6,000 and the library will move to the ground floor of the Bakehouse, behind the Reminiscence Centre, where it will be complemented by a cafe and reading lounge with daily newspapers and weekly and monthly journals. The library will remain there until the redeveloped Reminiscence Centre is opened.
Work to upgrade the Reminiscence Centre is expected to be completed by late summer 2012, when the Centre will re-open, offering enhanced reminiscence services and a children's, teenagers' and adults' library with a reminiscence lounge, coffee shop, training centre, and patio.
For more information about the new community library service, please contact Polly Mortimer, Library Consultant on 020 8318 9105 or email
polly.mortimer@age-exchange.org.uk |
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Volunteer Eileen O'Sullivan in the Reminiscence Centre Garden |
Older People's Visits to the Centre
The Centre is happy
to host groups of visiting older people, whether from local centres or
from half way across the world. We are a magnet for those with an interest
in "ordinary people's" everyday life and participation in the
big moments of history in the first half of the 20th century. Many visiting
groups find that items in the Centre stimulate long-since-forgotten memories
and help them to learn more about one another's past experience. Group
visits should be booked in advance.
Please contact
lydia.thurgar@age-exchange.org.uk |
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The Reminiscence Centre |
Schools Visits to the Centre
Many schools use the
Centre as a teaching resource. The Education Officer, teachers and older
people work together to develop visits suitable for the children's National
Curriculum needs. During the visit, older people lead discussions about
the past and help children to investigate the objects in the Centre and
the ideas and values associated with them, giving them a greater understanding
of how the past has influenced all our lives.
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Computer Courses for Older People
Age Exchange teaches word processing, desk-top publishing and internet use to older people through volunteer tutors. The work of these classes often relates to the main activities of the Centre through reminiscence and life story writing. |
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