My Gresham- Your Gresham is an oral history project for the Gresham area aimed at briging together the local community and improving cohesion in our community.

There are three part to this project:

• Recorded oral history interviews with a wide range of people living and working in Gresham
• Supporting visits to the local Dorman Museum.​  
• 'An Evening With'.... involving groups of residents meeting to talk about aspects of Gresham

​oRAL hISTORY iNTERVIEWS WITH RESIDENTS 

Below are some of the local residents who have shared their memories and thoughts with us in recorded interviews.

Sylvia

peter

Jackie

Mavis

If you are interested in recording your memories, just drop in to Streets Ahead, call us on 01642 803451, email us at [email protected], or use the email contact box below.

 
VISITS TO DORMAN MUSEUM

Dorman Museum provides learning opportunities for all ages. The staff run reminiscence events for older residents; special workshops for adults with learning difficulties and mental health problems and multicultural events for refugees and local Asian and African community groups. Curatorial staff offer sessions to specialists groups relating to specific parts of the museum’s collections. They run a wide range of lectures; listed on the ‘What’s On’ section of the Museum website.

Join our visits programme to the Museum!

The project has supported lots of groups of friends to visit the Museum, and interest is growing. 

We can arrange for small and large group of Gresham residents to have a great day out at Dorman Museum.  

If you are interested in visiting the Museum, just drop in to Streets Ahead, call us on 01642 803451, email us at [email protected], or use the email contact box below.

 
an evening with.........

These sessions- delivered by local residents known for their knowledge of the history of the area cover topics such as the shops, travel, local nights out and entertainment and more.
These sessions have proved to be very popular, and we are continuing to run the evenings with sessions which are focussing on the history of the area. We are working with the Dorman Museum on this as well.

Join these sessions and find out more about the history of your community and area. If there is a particular topic you think would be a good idea for a session let us know. Local graveyards has been a recent suggestions! 

If you are interested in taking part in "An Evening With.......", just drop in to Streets Ahead, call us on 01642 803451, email us at [email protected], or use the email contact box below.