Tag Archives: Edge Hill Archives

Edge Hill Archives Launch

The Edge Hill Archives launched today and it was a huge success! The Metal team have been busy collecting oral histories, photographs and Artifacts relating to the history of Edge Hill Station and the surrounding area. They also exhibited “Archive 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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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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