This was an oral history project about the quarrying industry in and around Clitheroe. People who had worked in the quarry's talk about their experiences and memories coupled with tales of local history.
Oral history is a really effective way of recording memories and stories. To hear the character and emotion in the voice of the subject gives the words greater depth and added meaning and so hence why we chose this method for Quarry Tales.
Our aim was to collect as wide a range of memories as we could - not just those of former and current workers in the quarrying industry, but those affected by it, their families and local residents.
Listen to this short extract.
The collection of material is available on this website as well as being deposited in the British Library Sound Archive so making it available worldwide to researchers.
We also added printed and photographic supporting material.
The project was a collaborative partnership with MIRO, Clitheroe Castle Museum, Lancashire Education Services, the Yorkshire Dales National Parks Authority, Purple Patch Arts, Skipton Camerata, the Ingleborough Dales Landscape Partnership and Leeds Literary and Philosophical Society as well as with a number of schools in Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales. We are continuing to develop applications for funding for our projects with community groups, schools, artists and museums in the North of England.
This project was supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
