Heritage Lottery Funded History Project
150 years ago this year, work began on the Waleswood Pit. Just ten years later, work started at Kiveton. For a full year and a half, until the end of 1867, miners went deeper and deeper, until they reached a major seam at the end of 1867. Until the end of 2007, exactly 140 years later, we are carrying out a major community history project, to bring together the fascinating past of this area as a record for future generations. We hope to do lots of exceiting things, but we need your help to create:
  • A picture museum of photos and local memorabillia: everything from miners' badges and pit records to school reports and ration books.
  • Exhibitions, in local museums and others around the region, of photos, memories, memorabillia and documents.
  • An oral history archive of local people's memories, from before the wars through to the millennium.
  • Activity weeks in local schools to teach local children and students about the area's past.
  • A local history festival towards the end of next year.
  • An industrial heritage trial of local historical sights - perhaps with information boards such as Chesterfield Canal
  • Community coach trips, such as to the National Coal Mining Museum, where we can go underground, like so many thousands of Kiveton Park and Wales miners in the past.
  • To complement excellent ongoing work about the history of Kiveton Park and Wales, we will create a book of local people's memories and photos. We also hope to create a book of small articles by local historians. Let us know if you would like to contribute.
  


The History Group

Volunteer for the History Project and get great training and experience!!!!
If you would like to volunteer fot the history project you will be given professional training and gain very useful experience. Dont worry if you havent't done these things before, you will be shown how and get lots of practise.


Image Editing:
We are collecting hundreds of photographs of kiveton Park and Wales from throughout the last hundred years. We need people to scan and restore these photographs with care and attention.

Digital Photography:
The project is also taking new photographs - so we can include a picture of what the area is like now with each old photo. We need keen photographers with an eye for detail to help us do this.

Digital Sound Editing:
When people are interviewed for the project, we will be keeping a recording so, if the interviewee would like us to, we can use excerts in exhibitions on our new website, and to contribute to local and national sound archives.

Website Design and Maintainance:
As part of the project a new local history website will be created. If you have any ideas for this or would like to help with its creation please let us know.

Oral History Interviews:
We will be having workshops to learn how to interview people effectively. Volunteers will then go into the community to interview people who would like to be interviewed.

General Project Work
We need volunteers to help with lots of bits and pieces to do with the project, from putting up posters, sorting out photos and objects to helping with ideas or the newsletter.