News Archive 2006
December 2006
Merry Christmas
In our constant quest for more memorable stories for the site we are focusing for the next few weeks on 'Christmas Memories'. We already have a few good stories but would love to have some more. So, get writing and let us have your reminiscences of Christmas past.
And a Merry Christmas to you all from the project team!
October 2006
Welcome to our updated and redesigned website. All of the familiar sections are still here but you can now search the site using the 'search' button. There are lots of new memories and some new photographs, with more to be added over the next few months. There are also sections showing our newsletters and information about North Shieds Library Club activities. We've tried very hard to make the site as accessible as possible, so do try out all the buttons to make the text bigger. We hope you enjoy browsing the site as much as we enjoy putting the material together.
September 2006
Our 'Working Lives' project volunteers spent an enjoyable and informative afternoon visiting the Working Lives Gallery at Discovery Museum today. We watched a film show of various people talking about their own working life and looked at the way technology has changed the way we do our work. We were guided on our tour by Alex Magin, a member of the Tyne & Wear Museum Service Outreach Team. After the tour we reconvened in the Discovery Cafe for refreshments and to talk about what we'd seen.
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August 2006
We're in the very last stages of the website redesign, so you'll soon be able to see the results of all the hard work that's been going on behind the scenes. It's a little bit like working with a pantomime horse at the moment, with the ‘front end’ of the site, the crisp clean design with improved accessibility, being joined on to the ‘back end’ – the sophisticated database system that has now been created.
While all this is happening memories continue coming into the site and we've also been out and about, collecting more. Watch out for new memories on; Working Lives, Easter Traditions and Childhood. We estimate that once all the new material is loaded we’ll have around 400 memories for you to look at.
May 2006
Lots of things have been happening since our last update in February. We've now installed all of the new technology and are now deciding how best to finalise the upgrade of the website. In the meantime we continue to collect memories which are being stored in our office until they can be published on the site. We would like to thank our regular contributors for continuing to provide such interesting material and also welcome some new contributors. In particular those residents of Eccles Court, Backworth and Bewicke Court, Willington Quay who have been working with us over Easter. Thanks to their contributions we will be adding a substantial new selection of memories associated with Easter Traditions, and we hope to continue working with them in the summer.
February 2006
The work to upgrade the site is continuing and we are delighted to say that some of the new hardware and software has now arrived, ready for installation. We've also been using this time to sort out some of the new memories ready for publication once all the upgrading has been done.
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