Category Archives: Vintage

Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival 2011

Our weekend at the Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival was as much fun as we hoped. We were remembered fondly from last year and we met a lot of new and familiar faces. The Buttered Muffins were on usual top form more »

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Edge Hill Archives Open Day

The Edge Hill Archive Open day was far more successful than METAL had expected with locals arriving in large numbers to record their memories about growing up, living and working in Edge Hill. Edge Hill residents came with stories, photographs more »

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Playing “Tickets Please”

“Tickets Please” is packed up and delivered to METAL. I have had time to edit some video footage of the game in action from our final play tests. “Tickets Please” is an oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration more »

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Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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The Second Liverpolitan Tweed Run

The Second Liverpolitan Tweed Run went ahead as planned despite the monsoon rains. Wearing summer coats and waterproof tweeds we braved the high winds and horizontal rain from the Pier Head, along the promenade, and to Sefton Park where we more »

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Light Night

We had an enormously pleasurable Light Night. We met up with friends at a vintage fair, visited the Walker Art Gallery and then St George’s Hall. We ended up at the ADA where they had loads going on! While there more »

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