Digital Visits

A Race In Loftus

Steve Thompson — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:28:06 +0000

Loftus Digital Visit

steveswpressalt — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:52:24 +0000

A large group of Digital Photgraphers we seen wandering Loftus today. Cllr Barry Hunt had organised a visit to the Town Hall and thanks also go to Alison, Clerk to Loftus Town Council for showing us around. Barry features on these walls in both name and image. Our intrepid group are pictured below in the Council Chamber. We then took to the streets of Loftus. What a fabulous place, I’ve visited many times and driven through even more but you see so much more on a walkabout. This visit was accompanied by a rich tapestry of local stories from John including the one about the famous Race between a Camel and a Lion. The pictures will end up as digital post cards as well as featuring in the Iron Age To Digital Age exhibition to take place in Loftus Town Hall in September.

Susans Pictures

Steve Thompson — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:28:37 +0000

Two weeks ago Susan was using a camera she got free in a lucky dip. Now she has turned into David Bailey. More pictures here

joan’s pictures

digivisits — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:21:27 +0000

Joan has been on holiday. Now that she is back she has uploaded her pictures and you can see them here.

Whitby Visit

Steve Thompson — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:44:55 +0000

Trevor has blogged his visit here and John has added pictures here.

Come Back Biggles

Steve Thompson — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:11:36 +0000

I had a blast today. I headed out to Whitby which is always a good trip. The purpose was to facilitate a multi media reporting blog for Whitby Community College and their feeder schools. http://www.whitbyschoolstransfer.co.uk Groovy URL huh? – the kids chose it.

For reasons that I’ll not go into now I found myself with a People Carrier on hire. I therefore sent messages out on my networks asking if anyone wanted a trip to Whitby. I got three takers, Trevor who is a Poet and on work experience to my projects. Susan, part of my Wednesday Community Media Club at Destinations in Saltburn. Susan spends a lot of time looking after her 100 yr old mother and has recently got into digital photography in a big way. Finally John a local historian from Loftus.

None of these guys knew each other so we had a round of introductions in the “Whitby Shuttle”. Trevor will be documenting this trip as well as evaluating the various mechanisms available for “Digital Visits”. I’ll let you know when he blogs the story warts and all.

With two local history buffs in the car it was sure to get interesting in a watching paint dry way. It transpired that the guy who wrote the Biggles books is from Marske where we had a recent digital visit. Now, apparently this guy who wrote about an ace pilot was actually a crap pilot himself. For some reason this group dubbed me “Biggles” which may refer to my driving skills.

I dropped them in Whitby centre and then went off to do my gig whilst they did theirs.

On the way back we called at Loftus Library home of the fabulous East Cleveland Image Archive and discussed some stuff including an open evening at the library for June 24th, all welcome.

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum

Steve Thompson — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:29:34 +0000

The group have now written up the story of their visit which can be found here. http://miningvisit.wordpress.com/

Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum

steveswpressalt — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:49:36 +0000

We had an excellent visit to the Mining Museum in Skinningrove this week and we’d like to thank CIMM for their hospitality. Particularly we’d like to mention the three volunteers Alan, Liz and Ian who took us through various parts of the mine and told us of the working and the history. We had a pretty large group on this visit with Friends of Redcar Cemetery joining us. Actually we’ve learned that there is a fair bit of networking happening on these visits with East Cleveland people attending Middlesbrough ones and vice versa. This will be the first visit to become a “Digital Visit”, an experiment to map, display images and tell stories about community visits.