A Note from Timeline

Dear All,
I am writing on behalf of TimeLine and Revd. Niall Weir, Rector of St. Paul’s West Hackney, because we are so pleased to be able to tell you about All Our Stories - a national project we have been chosen to help take part in. It is a chance for all of us to put the history and heritage of the a part of Hackney on the national map.

We are collecting up stories and memories of the West Hackney area, to create an online book that will be full of fun and facts about our own history and heritage – as individuals and as a community. Some of the stories, collected from archives will be from a very long time ago – even before the time of Queen Victoria - and others are much more recent, from people who enjoy sharing their memories and showing younger generations how things used to be in the place they live in now. Some of your stories are telling us about some of the journeys that led you or your family to Hackney – plenty more of those very welcome!

We thought that you might like to take part as you or your group probably have some fabulous stories of times gone by – whether it is the 1930s or the 1990s, things will be different nowadays! So we are sending this round robin email to let you know about it the project - we have attached some links which tell you more:

1. All Our Stories – an outline of the project (and an invitation to a Memory Catcher day in September) ;
2. A map of the West Hackney area –so you know where we are talking about;
3. How to send in your West Hackney stories;
4. Safer Streets and Celebrations – some pages for the book with very old stories about the early days of the West Hackney Church, quizzes and pictures;
5. Three Memory Joggers – these ones are about schools, weddings and journeys – just to get you thinking. We can send these to you as Word documents so you can use them to put stories on – just let us know if you would like them.

It would be great if you wanted to join in: why not send us your memories, or maybe you would like to do some research in the archives and tell us what you find. If you would like to help collect up people’s stories, that would be very useful too. And do pass this on to other people and we’ll see what we come up with.

The national project needs us to move fast, and we hope to collect a lot of the stories by mid-October – so we are hoping people can put their thinking caps on in September!

With very best wishes,
Camilla Camilla Loewe Editor/Co-ordinator TimeLine
PO Box 44684 London N16 0XY
Telephone 07947 667652
www.timeline.org.uk