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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:28 am
Memoryshare: what is it?
Compile a record of life since 1900 until the present day with the BBC Memoryshare project. But what is it? Find out below...
The first of its kind, the BBC Memoryshare project invites you to help create a day-by-day account of life from 1st January, 1900 until the present day.
What is it?
BBC Memoryshare will gradually piece together an intriguing people's history of Britain, based on your experiences.
You can post a memory or observation relating to any day from 1900. It doesn't have to be a big thing - it's just whatever has stuck in your mind for one reason or another.
You can...
:: Post a memory of an important event, whether...
personal (your wedding, the birth of your first child) or public (what you were doing when Diana died, how you felt during the Cuban Missile Crisis)
:: Post a memory of a small event, even if you don't think it seems important (blackberry picking, your first pet, getting your ears pierced)
:: Write as much or as little as you like, whether it's 50 words or 500
:: You can also comment on other people's memories
Get some ideas
Need your memory jogging? Have a look at this list of things which might spark a memory for you:
:: Transport, industry and civil unrest ::
Trams – old and new; 10p and 2p bus fares for kids ends 1974; steel companies close; miners strikes and riots; building of the M1 and Tinsley Viaduct; Jarrow March 1936; Henderson's Relish; Markham Maine and Bentley pit disasters 1970s; South Yorkshire becomes a nuclear free zone; Yemeni population come to Sheffield c. 1956; anti- nuclear and CND marches; poll tax protests...
:: Firsts, lasts and in-betweens ::
Pet; car; scooter; bike; house; baby; nightclub; concert; date; cinema; love; drink; illness; kiss; school; best friend; crush; birthday parties; divorce; childhood memory; job; football match; arrest, (car) accident; toy; time in jail, caught shoplifting; graduation; fight; football violence...
:: Sport ::
Australia v England cricket at Bramall Lane; World Cup 1966 at Hillsborough; 1912 Barnsley Cup; Wednesday Cup Finals 1935, 1966, 1982, 1983; Sheffield United in the bottom league and then relegated (1981); Hillsborough disaster 1989; Steelers and Sharks; Keepmoat and Belle Vue – last and first; Doncaster racecourse and meets;
Boxing; Milk Races...
:: Weather ::
Floods June 2007; Sheffield gales 1961-62; Doncaster gales 1980s...
:: Music, Entertainment and Films ::
Peter Stringfellow's Mojo club in the 1960s; Fiesta nightclub; BBC Radio Sheffield founded 1947 with presenters like Tony Capstick; Pulp, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, Arctic Monkeys ABC, Human League, Saxon; nights out at The Leadmill, City Hall, Boardwalk, Corporation, Roxy Disco; Bruce Springsteen at Bramall Lane; The Beatles in Sheffield at The Gaumont (now Embrace); Jimi Hendrix at the Arena; your University days; Bob Dylan at City Hall; Paul Simon – one of the first concerts at the Arena; Threads; Kes; The Full Monty; Sheffield - City on the Move (1974); Penistone Cinema; 'Police, Camera, Action' filmed in Sheffield...
:: Miscellaneous events ::
Stuffed whale tour comes to Barnsley; US WW2 bomber crashes in Endcliffe Park; The Millennium – New Years Eve 2000; Bombs in South Yorkshire; Neil Kinnock at Sheffield Arena; Tony Blair's visit to Sheffield; Royal visits; WW1 Sheffield Pals; Barry Noble and the Roxy Disco; Mrs Thatcher's visit to Sheffield; Emlyn Hughes' funeral...
:: Places and buildings ::
Don Valley; Meadowhall; Sheffield Mosque; Sheffield Parks handed over to public; The Earth Centre; meeting places - the Hole in the Road and Coles Corner; Park Hill flats; Finningley and Sheffield airports; Ski Village; Universities; Barnsley Markets demolished 1960s; Sheaf Market demolished; Keepmoat and Belle Vue; Doncaster Racecourse; the Eggboxes; Magna...
:: National and worldwide ::
Diana dies; Partition 1947; 9/11; London bombings; Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis; Britain at war with Afghanistan and Iraq; The Falklands; Charles and Diana's Wedding, 1981...
BBC - South Yorkshire - History - Memoryshare: what is it?
Compile a record of life since 1900 until the present day with the BBC Memoryshare project. But what is it? Find out below...
The first of its kind, the BBC Memoryshare project invites you to help create a day-by-day account of life from 1st January, 1900 until the present day.
What is it?
BBC Memoryshare will gradually piece together an intriguing people's history of Britain, based on your experiences.
You can post a memory or observation relating to any day from 1900. It doesn't have to be a big thing - it's just whatever has stuck in your mind for one reason or another.
You can...
:: Post a memory of an important event, whether...
personal (your wedding, the birth of your first child) or public (what you were doing when Diana died, how you felt during the Cuban Missile Crisis)
:: Post a memory of a small event, even if you don't think it seems important (blackberry picking, your first pet, getting your ears pierced)
:: Write as much or as little as you like, whether it's 50 words or 500
:: You can also comment on other people's memories
Get some ideas
Need your memory jogging? Have a look at this list of things which might spark a memory for you:
:: Transport, industry and civil unrest ::
Trams – old and new; 10p and 2p bus fares for kids ends 1974; steel companies close; miners strikes and riots; building of the M1 and Tinsley Viaduct; Jarrow March 1936; Henderson's Relish; Markham Maine and Bentley pit disasters 1970s; South Yorkshire becomes a nuclear free zone; Yemeni population come to Sheffield c. 1956; anti- nuclear and CND marches; poll tax protests...
:: Firsts, lasts and in-betweens ::
Pet; car; scooter; bike; house; baby; nightclub; concert; date; cinema; love; drink; illness; kiss; school; best friend; crush; birthday parties; divorce; childhood memory; job; football match; arrest, (car) accident; toy; time in jail, caught shoplifting; graduation; fight; football violence...
:: Sport ::
Australia v England cricket at Bramall Lane; World Cup 1966 at Hillsborough; 1912 Barnsley Cup; Wednesday Cup Finals 1935, 1966, 1982, 1983; Sheffield United in the bottom league and then relegated (1981); Hillsborough disaster 1989; Steelers and Sharks; Keepmoat and Belle Vue – last and first; Doncaster racecourse and meets;
Boxing; Milk Races...
:: Weather ::
Floods June 2007; Sheffield gales 1961-62; Doncaster gales 1980s...
:: Music, Entertainment and Films ::
Peter Stringfellow's Mojo club in the 1960s; Fiesta nightclub; BBC Radio Sheffield founded 1947 with presenters like Tony Capstick; Pulp, Def Leppard, Joe Cocker, Arctic Monkeys ABC, Human League, Saxon; nights out at The Leadmill, City Hall, Boardwalk, Corporation, Roxy Disco; Bruce Springsteen at Bramall Lane; The Beatles in Sheffield at The Gaumont (now Embrace); Jimi Hendrix at the Arena; your University days; Bob Dylan at City Hall; Paul Simon – one of the first concerts at the Arena; Threads; Kes; The Full Monty; Sheffield - City on the Move (1974); Penistone Cinema; 'Police, Camera, Action' filmed in Sheffield...
:: Miscellaneous events ::
Stuffed whale tour comes to Barnsley; US WW2 bomber crashes in Endcliffe Park; The Millennium – New Years Eve 2000; Bombs in South Yorkshire; Neil Kinnock at Sheffield Arena; Tony Blair's visit to Sheffield; Royal visits; WW1 Sheffield Pals; Barry Noble and the Roxy Disco; Mrs Thatcher's visit to Sheffield; Emlyn Hughes' funeral...
:: Places and buildings ::
Don Valley; Meadowhall; Sheffield Mosque; Sheffield Parks handed over to public; The Earth Centre; meeting places - the Hole in the Road and Coles Corner; Park Hill flats; Finningley and Sheffield airports; Ski Village; Universities; Barnsley Markets demolished 1960s; Sheaf Market demolished; Keepmoat and Belle Vue; Doncaster Racecourse; the Eggboxes; Magna...
:: National and worldwide ::
Diana dies; Partition 1947; 9/11; London bombings; Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis; Britain at war with Afghanistan and Iraq; The Falklands; Charles and Diana's Wedding, 1981...
BBC - South Yorkshire - History - Memoryshare: what is it?