The People Involved

The People Involved - The original cast of the Memory Bank 1998- 2003

The Memory Bank was created by a team of professionals and volunteers with a wide range of skills, expertise and experience.

Staff and Consultants

	Wendy Ball The germ of the idea for the Memory Bank took root in 1996 when Wendy was cataloguing some uninspiring twentieth century material donated to a local museum and began to wonder if it was necessary for the more recent historical record to be so incomplete. This started a two year period of investigations and research as to how to record modern life as it is happening so that we can have an inspiring record to pass on to future generations. In 1998 the developing project was adopted by the Scottish Borders Council, as one of the Council’s activities to mark the millennium. Wendy was Memory Bank Project Co-ordinator, from 1998 to 2001 and the Digby Co-ordinator from 2002-3. and the overall administrator of the project. She was much involved in liaising with professionals working in related fields, in establishing contact with those who have ideas for projects and in developing different resources from Memory Bank materials.
	Joy Dunsmore Working at the Memory Bank from August 1999 until January 2001, as the Project Assistant Joy managed the Memory Bank database. A key aspect of Joy’s work was to offer a friendly face and a helping hand to the many volunteers who came into contact with the Memory Bank. Although Joy moved to another position within Scottish Borders Council in January 2001 she continued to have a role in the Memory Bank and from 2003, until the management of the Memory Bank passed to the Archive and Local History Service she became the main point of contact.
	Aileen Bruce Memory Bank Assistant, March - June 1999
	Cathy Hamilton Memory Bank Project Assistant, January - March 2001
	Chris Hurst Chris developed the Memory Bank database which is central to the work of the Memory Bank. In doing so he helped to develop the systems for the cataloguing, indexing and storage of the archive materials. Providing creative thinking and intuitive insights into the digital environment, Chris made a significant contribution in helping the Memory Bank exploit the digital technology of 2000 in a practical and innovative way.
	Rose Paterson Rose was unique in the Memory Bank group. She is the only member of the team to have listened to every single word of the audio interviews! She not only listened to them but in her capacity as transcriber she turned the entire contents of recordings conversations, background noises, hesitations and repetitions into the printed word.
	Ian Brown In his capacity as Senior Museums Curator of Scottish Borders Council Museum and Gallery Service, Ian championed Wendy’s developing ideas for the Memory Bank and established it as a Council project for a period of two and a half years. He was responsible for the management of the project and oversaw the finances.
	Peter Munro As a Project Manger employed in Scottish Borders Council’s IT Unit Peter managed the Memory Bank ‘s web-site creation. His commitment to the Memory Bank extended to working for it in a voluntary capacity.
	Mary Wilson As Director of Interalia, a local company delivering development projects using internet and multimedia Mary was commissioned to produce the Memory Bank CD ROM, Millennium Memories, A Celebration of Life in the Scottish Borders. An integral part of the production of this CD ROM was the development of Memory Bank collecting programme and the generation of new material for the archives.

Volunteers

The Memory Bank would not have existed without the generous contributions of all the people who volunteered their personal stories, their time and their skills and to the those who made suggestions for possible projects to record memories of life in the Scottish Borders. The work and efforts of contributors, interviewers and collectors are marked by their place in the archive but there are others whose efforts are hidden behind the scenes.

We would like to acknowledge those people who supported the Scottish Borders Memory Bank in its first phase, from September 1998 to March 2001 as researchers, subject indexers, quality checkers, administrative helpers and general supporters; there would be no Memory Bank without their hard work, skills and patience.

Stephen Armstrong

4th year pupil on work experience

Karen Barber

recordist and subject indexer

Doreen Broom

transcriber

Julia Cawthorne

exhibition designer

Anne Cook

subject indexer

David Denham

driver, cataloguer, desktop publisher, database assistant and much more

Charlie Denoon

recordist and researcher

Mary Drysdale

recordist and researcher

Walter Elliot

local historian and adviser

William Finlayson

4th year pupil on work experience

Bill Hodgson

researcher and promotion

Ivan Hogg

transcriber and word processor

David Hughes

contributor and researcher

Susan James

recordist, subject indexer and co-author of web pages

Kelso Graphics

in kind support and encouragement

Margaret Lawson

Researcher

Lis Lee

recordist and researcher

Meg Lorrimer

subject indexer and quality checker of over 100 recordings

Heather Lough

subject indexer and word processor

Alex McCue

recordist and researcher

Iain MacIntosh

developer of Borders Festivals 2000 database

Alison Millar

researcher

Peter Munro

contributor and consultant

Alexandra Norton

researcher and word processor

Alistair Pattullo

recordist, researcher and subject indexer

Isabelle Paterson

recordist and researcher

Pen and Paper, Galashiels

in kind support and encouragement

Pauline Pitt

administrative support

Nicole Reid

Administrative support

Archie Trotter

recordist of over 18 interviews

Lorraine Wallace

transcriber, word processor and database entry