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YouTube
Across the Divide film on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW11xnUY3g
In Waltham Forest
Vestry House Museum Archives
www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/leisure/museums-galleries/archives-local-studies.htm
Vestry House Museum www.walthamforest.gov.uk/vestry-house
William Morris Gallery www.walthamforest.gov.uk/william-morris
Leyton and Leytonstone Historic Society www.leytonhistorysociety.org.uk
Age Concern Waltham Forest www.ageconcernwf.org.uk
London & Quadrant Housing Trust www.lqgroup.org.uk/services-for-residents/media-centre/news/northeast-neighbourhood-news-2/
Across London
Age Exchange www.age-exchange.org.uk
Boones Chapel (Exhibition Design) www.booneschapel.co.uk/home.html
The British Library www.bl.uk/whatson
London Metropolitan Archives www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma
Museum of London www.museumoflondon.org.uk
V & A Museum of Childhood www.vam.ac.uk/moc
Black Cultural Archives www.bcaheritage.org.uk
British History online www.british-history.ac.uk
And all local libraries and museums to your area, which are a wealth of community history, and archive photography and documentation.
Across the Divide - Voices from the Heart of Leyton.
Thank you to all those people who supported the project with memories, expertise, and ideas.
Participants
Crest Lunch Club at Albany Court, Gainsfield Court, Forest Community Centre, Suffolk Court, Wesleyan Day Care Centre, Leyton Tea Dance.
Rose Adams, Mary Adams, Zulfiquar Ali, Len Allsop, Rose Allsop, Peter Ashan, Linda Bleach, David Boote, Pauline Borg, Jane Brueseke, Anne Carter, Doris Chapman, Kitty Cantwell, Sheena Dunbar, Sirad Elmi, Lillian Emberson, Sonia Hameed, Gary Heales, Maria Holmden, Joan King, Ruth Kintu, Stanton LaFoucade, Mariam Moody, Anna Mason, Patrick Reynolds, Leslie Savill, Mara Roberts, Jan Sellers, Martin Spafford of George Mitchell School and year 10 students, Richard Southall, Bob Sullivan, Kathleen Vincent, Kathleen Vernon, Bert Weston, Brian Wilks, Margaret Wilks, Simon Wood.
Project partners:
London and Quadrant Housing Trust, Age Exchange, Age Concern Waltham Forest, All Saints Church Leyton, George Mitchell School, Leyton Community Cyber Link, Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society, Springboard Housing (Rainbow Project), Leyton BNI, Vestry House Museum, Waltham Forest Archives & Local Studies Library, Waltham Forest Direct.
Project delivered by:
Ciaran Porter, of London and Quadrant
David Savill, Malcolm Jones, Madeleine Adams, Simon Purins, Simon Geal, Meg Hamilton, Tony McTurk, Simon Geal, Chloe Harbour, Suzanne Lockett, Dimple Nakum, Jenni Newnham, and Amanda Westbury of Age Exchange
Ben Thomas Sarah Boote (The Other Company)
Melanie Jones (MJ Associates)
Thanks to the Vestry House Museum London Borough of Waltham Forest for the use of images from the photo archive, and to local people who have kindly shared their own family photographs.
Exhibition design by Boone's Chapel Ltd.
Printing by Pyramid Visuals Ltd.
Project conceived by Jehan Weerasinghe, Ciaran Porter, and David Savill
Website by Ken Drysdale
For further information on the project please contact
David Savill (Artistic Director) at Age Exchange tel: 020 83189105
or visit www.age-exchange.org.uk
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