Copies can be purchased at the Hyde Tavern or by contacting Madelaine Key on 01962 867699 or by email on madelaine@freewheel.plus.com

Price £12.00

If you would like copies posted please add p&p per book of £3.00 (UK), £7.00 (Europe) or £10.00 (Rest of World)

The Hyde in Living Memory book is at the printer, expected back very soon. If the printing goes to schedule, we’ll be launching it on Saturday 18th December between 2pm and 6pm in the Hyde Tavern. Put that date in your diaries now and stay tuned! The editorial team gathered outside the old post office this morning for a publicity photo, clutching a copy of the book (well, a mock-up of the front cover anyway).

Remember, there’s still time to order your copy. And why not buy another one as a Christmas present for someone?

Update: The printers are working their hardest to get the book to us by 17th December, but the weather conditions have had a knock on effect on the printing schedule and we may not now receive copies until 20th December. Every effort will be made to get pre-ordered copies to everyone by Christmas.

The Living History day on Saturday 11th September as a part of the Heritage Open Weekend was a great success with almost 300 visitors to Hyde Parish Hall during the day.

As well as displays and a slide show of old photos of Hyde (which had to be shown 4 times rather than the two originally planned) visitors were able to write their own memories, be interviewed, catch up with old neighbours or read memories already  submitted to the project. Young visitors had a variety of things to keep them busy including colouring sheets of Hyde houses, a handprint wall and a Spotters Guide walk around Hyde.

Several Hyde families now have Time Capsules hidden in their houses following a ‘Time Capsule’ workshop at the Winchester Discovery Centre run by local artists Sue Fox & Sue Keneally.

Children decorated their time capsule boxes, adding important information such as ‘Do Not Open until 2050′ and created labels to identify whose Time Capsule the box contained. The boxes were then filled with family memorabilia – day to day objects that tell the story of family life in Hyde today. The families also created ringbound flipbook of personal/family memorabilia to keep in the time capsule box- this included information on my house, my family, pets, favourite music, family recipes.

Further Time Capsule workshops will be held in Autumn 2010

A recent appeal in the Hampshire Chronicle by the Living History group for information about the night the Rolling Stones played the Lido in 1963 has had a terrific response.

We will shortly be posting ‘memories’ of the night on the website. Meanwhile, you can read about it in this Hampshire Chronicle article.

We have now received an £18,200 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). This means work can start in earnest on the Living History project.

Our plans include:

* Recording interviews with elderly residents,
* workshops to help 50 local families to produce a time capsule to store in their homes,
* Selecting four streets to map the history of each house.
* A series of talks,
* an exhibition,
* an education pack for local schools and information posted on Hyde900’s website.
* Up to 50 oral history recordings of residents’ memories, to be catalogued and held at the Wessex Sound Archive and Hampshire County Record Office.
* Building a collection of old photographs from local people, to be digitised and held at the Record Office and by Winchester Museum Service.

For the Heritage Lottery Fund, Head of HLF South East England Michelle Davies said: “This is truly a project that engages the whole community in finding out more about themselves and where they live and sharing their discoveries with others.”

Obviously we’re going to need a lot of help with all this, so please get in touch if you’d like to be involved (details below).
Wanted: Oral history co-ordinator

As a result of our HLF grant, we can now emply a paid(!) Oral History co-ordinator. If you think you might be interested in this role, have a look at the job advertisement (Word document 20KB) and job description (Word document, 31KB).
Volunteer interviewers/interviewees needed

Volunteer Interviewers and interviewees needed for Hyde 900 Oral/Living History project: If you are interested in contributing please contact Geoff & Elaine Barrett, tel. Winchester 843356 or email the Living History group .