A 10 week workshop in Fairlight, East Sussex in 2009

By John Cheves

Working over a period of ten weeks Heritage Plus held reminiscence workshops with the Marsham Older Peoples group in Fairlight, East Sussex. During that time people shared and wrote down their memories which were illustrated along with their photographs, brought in images and drawing.

The shared memories were collected in a book that provides a small insight to life as a child growing up through the war years.

The importance of sharing memories was immensely valuable both to the participants who took part in the reminiscence sessions and also to those who read their tales.

You can read an extract from the book below, and find more information about it here in our Products section.

More of the participants stories can be found here in our archive.