A Museum for the Future : A project with pupils of West Calder High School.
The Living Memory Association Podcast
Release Date: 06/04/2024
Sikh Stories with Tony Singh - How Hip Hop Opened My Mind and Made Me Think
The Living Memory Association Podcast
Sikh Stories is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Sikh Sanjog, The Living Memory Association and funded by Awards for All Scotland. The project idea came from members of the Sikh Community after images of a Leith Sikh family were displayed at The Wee Museum of Memory. These podcasts highlight the commonality amongst cultures and people that cut across divides. Celebrating their individual experiences, from a love of house music, sharing food and drink with new found friends and embarking on a discovery of spiritual awakening. As a minority group within the wider minority...
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Pick 'n' Mix 3: From Across Time
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The 44th edition of the THELMA tapes, The Liming Memory Association Podcast, is a dive into memories of the 1930s through the 70s. They have been gathered from our collection of old interviews and features a miscellaneous assortment of stories that don't quite fit into our regular episodes. This episode goes from tales of a father's steam powered lorry, to working in sales in the 50's, to tenement life during the war, to working on a Portuguese cruise ship, touring Paris with boys in kilts, to a first visit to the library all the way down to having class with a bad teacher.
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Melvin Farquharson - A Life in Law
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In the 49th edition of Lifestory, at the age of 86, Melvin takes us through the ups and downs of his life. Starting with his childhood playing on the train tracks in his back yard, to his time studying Engineering at Heriot-Watt University. Later his time in the national service, and eventually his life studying and then subsequently practicing law, first with his father's law firm and later with British gas. Mel also tells the story of how he met his wife at the sailing club and about his life since retirement.
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An Immigrant's Financial Journey - Camels are Currency
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This episode of the Thelma Tapes was recorded in our Wee Museum studio by our friends Tynah & Jonathan and is a celebration of our partnership with Enkula Health. Kamel's story is fascinating, from a childhood in #Libya in a culture of loyalty trust and alternate, this episode is a breath of different in the truest sense. Tradition, Education, and Perspective from a different view point. The full series can be found on Spotify, check them out soon at https://open.spotify.com/show/7L9X39YLYWkqM7TqQyWiAi?si=2af53bc6270d46d1 Thriving Beyond Borders is a limited series...
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A Museum for the Future : A project with pupils of West Calder High School.
The Living Memory Association Podcast
In the 42nd episode of the Thelma Tapes we dare to investigate what collections, themes and objects will form the stuff of future museums and the sort of stories future generations might learn about humanity. Working with our Wee Museum of Memory in Livingston and exploring the 'Marseum' resource, commissioned by Museums Galleries Scotland, in their digital skills development classes, pupils from West Calder High School in West Lothian researched and curated content for their own museum displays culminating in an installation at our Livingston museum space. In this podcast, a selected group of...
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Away for the Messages Episode 6 - The Store and The Provi
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The 41st episode of the Thelma Tapes continues our 'Away for the Messages' shopping and retail heritage project. This episode features oral histories from Ian Suggitt and Tom Hislop both of whom worked for Edinburgh's Co-operative Stores in the 1950s/60s and the 1970s/80s respectively. Ian tells us about his time with the St Cuthbert's Association Store and Tom recalls his work history with the Leith Provident Store and St Cuthbert's, following the merger of the two. Thanks to BigCat_Smauls for the use of his 'Without a Care' Upbeat Loop found on Freesound.org The photograph of 1950s Leith...
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Away for the Messages Episode 5 - Shopping Memories of Craigmillar & Niddrie (Part2)
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The 40th episode of the Thelma Tapes is from our 'Away for the Messages' shopping and retail reminiscence project. This is the second part of a feature on the shops in the Niddrie and Craigmillar area of Edinburgh and focusses on 'Cunninghams' a ladieswear and haberdashery shop which first opened in 1954. In the episode we hear from proprietor Alan Cameron about his memories of this family business and his reflections of working alongside the folk of Craigmillar. Thanks to Bigcat_Smauls for the use of his 'Without a Care' Upbeat Loop found on Freesound.org We are hugely grateful to the...
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Holiday Memories
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The 39th Episode of The THELMA Tapes takes us back in time to a selection of weird and wonderful holidays taken from the 1940s to the 1990s, gathered from visitors to our Wee Museum in Ocean Terminal Edinburgh. Thanks to everyone who shared their earliest vacation stories with us, we hope you enjoy joining us on a trip down memory lane to Scarborough, Ayr, Liverpool, France, Budle Bay, Cramond, Uganda and many more, not all of them cheery tales!
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Away for the Messages Episode 4 - Shopping Memories of Craigmillar & Niddrie (Part 1)
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The 38th episode of the Thelma tapes continues to chart our retail and shopping reminiscence project, 'Away for the Messages.' In Part One, of a two-episode feature, we focus on the memories of shops in the Niddrie and Craigmillar district of Edinburgh. We hear from Ruby Suggitt who worked at Cunningham's Drapers and Ladies' Fashions in the 1960s and from Heather Henderson, born and bred in Greendykes, who continues to champion Craigmillar as a volunteer with local community archive project Craigmillar Now. Thanks to Craigmillar Now for permission to use their archive photo of shoppers on...
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Away for the Messages Episode 3 - Memories of Casey's Confectioners
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The 37th episode of the Thelma tapes continues to chart our retail and shopping reminiscence project. In this episode we hear from Helen Teviotdale of Casey's Confectioners and Sweet Shop as she recalls working with Jimmy Casey and serving sweets to the great Edinburgh public! Stay tuned as Helen reveals her own personal recipe for Scottish tablet! Thanks to Bigcat_Smauls for the use of his 'Without a Care' Upbeat Loop found on Freesound.org
info_outlineIn the 42nd episode of the Thelma Tapes we dare to investigate what collections, themes and objects will form the stuff of future museums and the sort of stories future generations might learn about humanity.
Working with our Wee Museum of Memory in Livingston and exploring the 'Marseum' resource, commissioned by Museums Galleries Scotland, in their digital skills development classes, pupils from West Calder High School in West Lothian researched and curated content for their own museum displays culminating in an installation at our Livingston museum space.
In this podcast, a selected group of pupils talk about their choice of subjects and what impact they think these will have on a museum visitor of the future....
Thanks to stk13 for use of their prometheus.wav track found on freesound.org
The Living Memory Association thanks the pupils of WCHS and teacher Mr Casey for their hard work and input. Many thanks to Emma Peattie from West Lothian Museums & Archives and to Heather Robertson and Russell Clegg from The Living Memory Association, who co-ordinated the project. Thanks also to Museums Galleries Scotland for their support and encouragement.