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Two of the East Riding Museums are currently running projects in conjunction with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People’s War — these are Beverley Guildhall and Goole Museum.

BEVERLEY GUILDHALL

Staff and community volunteers at the Guildhall are preparing an exhibition for May 2005 entitled ‘The people’s war in Beverley’. This will look at some aspects of wartime life including such subjects as the Land Army and Home Guard, rationing, children and evacuees, and the contribution of local industries. We will also be including reminiscences from local people on their experiences of the war in Beverley, many of which will later be included on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People’s War website.

We will be holding a coffee morning at the Guildhall on Friday April 8th 2005, in conjunction with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People’s War, and would like to invite you to come along and talk to us about your wartime memories. You will also be able to view some of the entries that are already on the website to give you a taste of the range of stories that have been contributed so far.

We would also like to invite you to bring along any relevant objects that you would be willing to lend to us for the duration of the exhibition (until November 2005), and any photographs which we could include in the East Riding Heritage Library and use in the exhibition. These can be returned to you either on the day or shortly after.

If you are unable to come on that day but would like to contribute to either the ´óÏó´«Ã½ project or the Guildhall exhibition we will also be taking memories throughout the duration of the exhibition.

GOOLE MUSEUM

Goole Museum staff will be hosting an exhibition being prepared by members of the Boothferry Family History Society on the theme of ‘Wartime Memories of Goole’, which will be held during July and August 2005 to coincide with the town’s celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

The exhibition will look at life in the town during the war years, and we are particularly interested in memories of growing up during the war, of the various Italian prisoner of War camps in and around the town, and of work in the docks and shipyards at the time.

The museum and the Society are busy collecting memories, photographs and objects for the exhibition itself, and to add to the growing community archive at the museum. People who do not wish to part with precious photographs and documents can have them scanned into the East Riding Heritage Library (and also to the People’s War website) while they wait.