New Grant Helps Flintham Look Forward
Following our success with 'Keeping the Home Fires Burning?' a project about life in Flintham during World War One, the Flintham Museum has been awarded a further £9,300 by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Our latest project, 'Flintham Looks Forward' will consider the impact of the war on various aspects of village life, 1918-1928.
The grant will be used for the following purposes:
researchers will visit local and county archives and libraries, and the Wren Library at Trinity College Cambridge because the College owned property and land at Flintham during and after WWI
a group of 35 residents will visit Cambridge by coach for a history-related tour of the city
monthly newsletters will be delivered to every home in the parish and emailed to a wider audience between August 2016 and March 2019. Please contact the museum if you would like to be added to our mailing list
a series of oral history sessions with older residents
informal tea and memory events so that the village primary school children can chat with older residents and ask them questions about life when they were young
a booklet about Flintham 1911-1928 which will draw together the research from both projects
a two-day event in the church when there will be all sorts of activities using written, spoken and tactile material. As with our 'Meet the Families in 1913', anything could (and no doubt will) happen to celebrate the end of the project.
