An oral history and video project centred on the map in Folkestone Museum showing where bombs, shells and V1 rockets fell during WWII. The idea is to add live testimony to an otherwise rather dry exhibit.
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The outcome will be a presentation made at the Folkestone museum and a multi-media archive containing both video and audio recordings, which will be gifted to the museum.
We have discussed this project with Jennifer Buchman, manager of the museum and she fully supports it.
We shall seek out living witnesses and record their stories. We shall also make videos of the locations mentioned by the interviewees as they are now. This project follows on from our Big Lottery supported project: WWII Front line Kent Childhoods but unlike that it hones in on very specific aspects of Folkestone’s and Sandgate’s experience of that war.
Decision type: Non-key
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Notice of proposed decision first published: 27/02/2019
Decision due: 27 Mar 2019 by Ward Plan decision: Sandgate and West Folkestone
Lead member: Councillor Ms Janet Holben janet.holben@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk
Contact: Amandeep Khroud, Assistant Director Email: amandeep.khroud@folkestone-hythe.gov.uk.