Our Own History

Do you like talking about your childhood?

Do you have vivid memories of the district when you were a lad?

Perhaps you remember your first job – was it at the store or maybe in the pit?

I’m sure you recall the games you played in the back street or when you had your first baby.

Would you be able to help to establish a picture of what it was like to live in Waterhouses in the past? We would like to collect a series of spoken memories which together would make up a valuable historical record from which everyone can benefit.

A small group of volunteers is available to talk to people or rather to listen to people, to record them and add the memories to a village database. You don’t have to be a long-term resident to join in.

All sorts of memories are helpful in making history live for our children and also for the rest of us. Even yesterday is history and it would be really useful to interview a whole range of age-groups, occupations, natives/incomers, etc. We’d specially like youngsters to come forward. I bet it’s really different being 8 in 2004 from being 8 in 1944. Please help if you can.

Use the feedback page if you would like to be interviewed or can spare the time to help with the recording