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  • A coronavirus update from Robert the archivist

    A coronavirus update from Robert the archivist

    The coronavirus pandemic has certainly changed my archiving project for High Peak Community Arts. Since November I have been going through boxes, cupboards and filing cabinets at High Lea Hall and recording their contents on my computer. Last week I was due to take the first batch of boxes to Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock

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  • The Work Begins

    The Work Begins

    Progress is being made quickly on the archive project, because now we have got an Archivist! This is Robert, hard at work going through a folder. This is the first stage of the archiving – he is cataloguing what he finds in the various boxes and files we have got everywhere, then the rest of

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  • Unearthing the boxes

    So here we all are, making a first pass at the archiving. We have unearthed the boxes from the shelves in the Slightly Challenging Room, and this was exciting, because I discovered that we actually had an unsuspected cupboard (unsuspected by me – Sophie and Alison knew about it) behind a dismantled Yurt. We had

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  • A 40th Anniversary sort-out

    You’ve probably seen in our newsletter or on our Facebook page about the tea parties we’ve been running to celebrate our 40th Anniversary. So far we’ve had them in Buxton and Glossop and they’ve been great, lots of fun, with some fabulous ceramics featuring pictures from our past projects, some amazing sculptures in willow of

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