Tales from The Mill Project Manager – Call for Tenders

The Mill is seeking an experienced project manager and oral history practitioner to manage the Tales from The Mill oral history project during summer 2021. The Mill is a volunteer-led community hub founded 10 years ago by the local community in the old St James Street local library building in this diverse area of Walthamstow. […]

Memories of Shops and Shopping around St James Street Exhibition

Tuesday 14 March – Saturday 22 April Public Opening: Thursday, 16 March 2017, 6:30pm – 8pm, All Welcome Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop brings together historic photographs and documents from Vestry House Museum and recorded memories of more than 30 local shoppers, shop owners and stallholders from the First World War to 2017 in an […]

Memories of Shops and Shopping Around St James Street

Thursday 7 July, 2-7pm Garden Room Free Oral History Training Are you interested in local history? Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop is giving free training to volunteers on our oral history project recording local people’s memories of how the shops and market stalls in St James Street and the lower High Street have changed over the years. The […]

Volunteer with the Ex-Warner Project – drop in session

5 July 2016, 7 – 8pm Free All welcome Help us record the history of the Ex-Warner Estate. Rendezvous Projects has recently gained funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to record the experiences of long term Warner residents by interviewing them for an archive to be held at Vestry House Museum. We’ll also be creating […]

Memories of Shops and Shopping

Saturday, 14 May 2016 10.30am – 12.00pm Living Room Free A free illustrated talk by Robert Wilkinson of the Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop on the history of shops and market stalls in the St James Street conservation area and a discussion afterwards. Anyone interested in local history is welcome. Come and share your own memories! […]

Memories of Shops and Shopping

Saturday, 14 May 2016 10.30am – 12.00pm Living Room Free A free illustrated talk by Robert Wilkinson of the Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop on the history of shops and market stalls in the St James Street conservation area and a discussion afterwards. Anyone interested in local history is welcome. Come and share your own memories! […]