What's in the Memory Bank
What’s in the Memory Bank?
Photographs
Gold photo CDs containing images scanned in at 5 resolutions from thumb nails to top publishing quality -
- Robert D. Clapperton Photographic Trust - glass plate negatives were digitised containing a largely unpublished photographic archive of 150 years of Borders social life.
- Museum projects – Topics from Museum Collections
- Postcards collections
- Community Council photograph collections - Smailholm, Morebattle, Earlston, Maxton, Newtown St Boswells, St Boswells, Stow
- History Societies – Yetholm, West Linton
- personal photographs to illustrate a story or memory
Audio
Audio CDs, indexed alphabetically, containing raw material – people’s own stories in their own words as they were spoken. Full transcriptions are stored for each interview. Projects included
- Vets in the community
- Archie Trotter interviews on Selkirk life
- Century of childhood memories
- Common Ridings & Festivals
- English migration into Scotland
- Community stories from Greenlaw, Hume, Birgham, Eyemouth, St Boswells, Innerleithen
- Wartime Memories of Kelso
- Resisting the Nazi invader
- The Scottish Manufacturers Association?? Galashiels?
- The Ian Landles Collection, mainly Hawick
- Scottish Traditions of Dance Trust archive
- Hawick Cycle Club
- Borders Exploration Society
- History of Dingleton
- Borders Talking Newspapers
Film
- A limited collection of VHS video
- Border Textile Industry – Bewick films
- Border Festivals / common ridings
Facts and Figures
At the end of the first phase of the Memory Bank in 2001 there were:
- 115 contributing projects representing 44 towns and villages in the Borders.
- 268 individual stories
- Over 1000 old photographs
- 190 interviews on audio CD
- 248 scripts and written memories
5 education packs (Us Now, The Fleece’s Tale, Memories of a Woollen Manufacturer, Then and Now, Kingsland Pilot) and a CD Rom – Millennium Memories
Unified Solutions.