Marske Digital Village

To wet your appetite for the wonderful audio files coming your way,checkout our little audition for the voice of Radio Bydales.First up to audition was our very own Miss Smith.

We had probably collect the most Images to arcive this session with a man donating 70 images to us then an another couple donating slides for us to use, but it's a shame we can not get the slides scanned into the archive, as there are about 80 of them.
Although we haven't had many people coming to us donating the images, we have got over 140 images not counting the images from the slides.
Next session I hope more people decide to come as it would make it less of a harduous process.

On Thursday 6th March there was another picture collection, this time one man brought in 70+ images on USB pen of Marske in the recent years. Another man brought in some old slides which contained pictures of Old Marske, unfortunatly we were not able to scan the slides in as we did not have a slide scanner but hopefully we will next time.

The first data collection at Marske Library was a great success, although we only had a few people coming and giving us pictures to scan and use in our archive. The people that came kept us all busy and engaged their fascinating stories about marske and the events that happened, like Empire day.

We managed to add 33 images to our archive and also we recorded the stories of the photos with 12 stories told to us and hundreds more that we haven't recorded.

Vera, a retired school teacher with an MBE for teaching for 40 years, especially made us enjoy ourselves, and we've learned a huge amount of the history of Marske from her, like there is one of the few listed telephone boxes in the country behind the Ship Inn.

We all enjoyed it, with Mrs Race, Miss Smith, Steve Thompson and Tracey from the Libary overlooking everything. James, Mike, Camille, Sam, Charlotte, Rachel, Conor, Hayley and Amy all doing the Data Collection and listening to every word that members of the public told us.

In conclusion it was much more intresting than first expected, and we were allways kept very busy.

Tonights collection evening has been very succesful, we had a visit from local historian, Vera Robinson. We collected a whopping 34 images on our first session! We are very grateful to those who participated by bringing their photos to us.

I think that the 1st session has gone realy well and I hope that the digital media team can do more of these sessions!!!!!

Please keep bringing your pictures and stories in!!!!

I think this evenings session has been fantastic! The information we have been provided with, is facinating. The stories, photos and facts are all so intresting.

I feel so proud to be involved in this project, it has really inspired me.

As part of the project I am becoming very excited about starting the process of adding media to the Marske Digital Village. I hope to see you on the 7th December 2007.

Coming soon Bydales Times!

The project began today when eight students of Bydales Specialist Technology College went to BBC Tees Open Centre. The students visited for a training workshop. Throughout the day, students used the scanning software, the google docs software and practised the processes of creating a digital archive. They used some sample archive photographs to practise with but then created their own upto date images by scanning the contents of their pockets (see below.)