The first podcast from the Calver Weir oral history project is now online. It features Ray Fowler talking about his experiences, projects and successes as Sales Director at Sissons, who made stainless steel products at Calver Mill during the second half of the 20th Century. Some were shipped to the Falklands. The interview was recorded by the oral history volunteers and edited by inHeritage.
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Monday, 3 September 2012
Henge Diggers Exhibition
Bill Henge Diggers exhibition opens in Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum on the 8th September.
You can find out more on Bill Bevan Photography.
Details of the exhibition opening times on are the museum website.
The exhibition is funded by the Arts Council with support from Manchester Museum and Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
You can find out more on Bill Bevan Photography.
Details of the exhibition opening times on are the museum website.
The exhibition is funded by the Arts Council with support from Manchester Museum and Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
Friday, 31 August 2012
Tideswell Photography Workshop
Today Bill led a workshop on street photography and portraiture for Tideswell Living History Group. Members of the group learnt skills and principles to enable them to take street scenes of everyday life in Tideswell and district and portraits of oral history interviewees.
The day was divided in two - the morning on street photography and the afternoon on portraiture. Each began with a presentation on ethics, composition and lighting with examples from my own work and that of others. Participants then practised the photography skills on Tideswell's streets and with each other. Practise sessions were followed by each participant talking through three examples of their shots with feedback from others.
Example of the fantastic street photographs taken by the participants can be seen on Tideswell Tales. Everyone took great photos of Tideswell and some great portraits of each other. I look forward to seeing the further results of their work in the future.
The day was divided in two - the morning on street photography and the afternoon on portraiture. Each began with a presentation on ethics, composition and lighting with examples from my own work and that of others. Participants then practised the photography skills on Tideswell's streets and with each other. Practise sessions were followed by each participant talking through three examples of their shots with feedback from others.
Example of the fantastic street photographs taken by the participants can be seen on Tideswell Tales. Everyone took great photos of Tideswell and some great portraits of each other. I look forward to seeing the further results of their work in the future.
Monday, 9 July 2012
Hunter Schools Test Pits
Pupils and staff from Dalton Listerdale School, Rotherham after a good day's digging
Today is the last day of the Hunter Archaeological Society test pits. Children and archaeologists have battled through the rain to dig almost 70 test pits in their school grounds in Barnsley, Dronfield, Rotherham and Sheffield. Almost 150 junior school children between 7 and 11 have had the hands-on opportunity to be archaeologists and dig up their playing fields in search of clues from the past. The excitement of finding objects has led one class to do an 'archaeology is cool' dance at the end of their session. Finds include pottery, clay pipes, bottles and old marbles.Our educational heritage officer and cartoonist are following-up the test pits with sessions interpreting the finds.
The Sheffield Star has featured in project, despite it mis-identifying Hunter member Martin Waller in the photograph - http://bit.ly/RM5B7S
Jim Rylatt with pupils from Dobcroft Juniors, Sheffield
The Hunter test pits are one of our ongoing educational and community archaeology projects. To see completed projects please visit out projects page.
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
No News Is...
... good news. We hope. My apologies for not posting inHeritage news updates for May and June. We've simply been too busy to find time to update the news section. Which does count as good news.
The highlights of the last two months have been:
Bill toured Scotland for two weeks in May to work on his next book - Walk Into the Dark Ages. He covered hundreds of miles, from Dumfries to Shetland, Aberdeen to Iona, visiting and photographing Dark Ages sites.
The Hunter Archaeological Society Centenary Weekend was a roaring success in mid May.
The Lune Aqueduct Digital Memories project is up and running, and the first oral history interviews should be done this month.
Hope and Castleton historical societies have been making some interesting discoveries in the record offices. The wet weather delayed the landscape survey work, which is now well under way along with the test pits.
The first Calver Weir oral history interviews have been undertaken and the first podcast should be online within the next couple of weeks.
We'll endeavour to keep you updated with July's news as it happens.
The highlights of the last two months have been:
Bill toured Scotland for two weeks in May to work on his next book - Walk Into the Dark Ages. He covered hundreds of miles, from Dumfries to Shetland, Aberdeen to Iona, visiting and photographing Dark Ages sites.
The Hunter Archaeological Society Centenary Weekend was a roaring success in mid May.
The Lune Aqueduct Digital Memories project is up and running, and the first oral history interviews should be done this month.
Hope and Castleton historical societies have been making some interesting discoveries in the record offices. The wet weather delayed the landscape survey work, which is now well under way along with the test pits.
The first Calver Weir oral history interviews have been undertaken and the first podcast should be online within the next couple of weeks.
We'll endeavour to keep you updated with July's news as it happens.
Calver Weir Audio Trail
The Calver Weir Audio Trail is now available online to download and copy to your mp3 player ready to explore the heritage and wildlife of the area around the weir and Calver Mill.
The trail takes you on a journey along the River Derwent from Curbar Bridge to Froggatt Bridge and back. On the way you can discover the features in the landscape which tell the history of the mill and its weir. You also encounter the rich wildlife which makes its home along the banks of the river.
To download the trail, visit http://www.calverweir.org.uk and click on the New Audio Trail link on the right hand side of the home page.
The trail takes you on a journey along the River Derwent from Curbar Bridge to Froggatt Bridge and back. On the way you can discover the features in the landscape which tell the history of the mill and its weir. You also encounter the rich wildlife which makes its home along the banks of the river.
To download the trail, visit http://www.calverweir.org.uk and click on the New Audio Trail link on the right hand side of the home page.
Friday, 27 April 2012
Tideswell Tales Website
The Tideswell Tales website is launched today.
Bill led a training workshop on using the free website service wordpress.com to promote and communicate the Tideswell Tales project to members of the Tideswell Living History Group. He taught participants how to add and edit pages, blog posts, media files and photographs - including how to create image galleries. We also went through how to upload audio files to AudioBoo and SoundCloud, then how to embed the audio files into Wordpress pages. The members of the groups created news pages with embedded radio broadcasts and new themed sections with pages containing oral history recordings.
Using social media audio services saves expensive media hosting fees and embeds excellent, easy-to-use media players into project and society websites. Wordpress allows societies to create free function-rich websites containing news, events, information, photographs, documents, PDFs, and embedded audio and video, which are easy to maintain with a little training.
You can listen to the project launch radio interviews and the first oral history excerpts at Tideswell Tales. Click on News or use the drop-down menus under Audio.
Bill led a training workshop on using the free website service wordpress.com to promote and communicate the Tideswell Tales project to members of the Tideswell Living History Group. He taught participants how to add and edit pages, blog posts, media files and photographs - including how to create image galleries. We also went through how to upload audio files to AudioBoo and SoundCloud, then how to embed the audio files into Wordpress pages. The members of the groups created news pages with embedded radio broadcasts and new themed sections with pages containing oral history recordings.
Using social media audio services saves expensive media hosting fees and embeds excellent, easy-to-use media players into project and society websites. Wordpress allows societies to create free function-rich websites containing news, events, information, photographs, documents, PDFs, and embedded audio and video, which are easy to maintain with a little training.
You can listen to the project launch radio interviews and the first oral history excerpts at Tideswell Tales. Click on News or use the drop-down menus under Audio.
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