Present: JB, ML, CM, J&KP
1 Remembrance Day ceremony which took place at Fulwood War Memorial on 12th.
- People involved
- Land around the war memorial – ownership and use
2 FHG website update
- Connected to importance of keeping record of our meetings
- Way to keep relatively large number of people connected
- Design, accessibility, structure and functionality: Matthew took notes
- Posting and adding longer articles
- Current contributions to the site
- Looked at C. Jenkins’ Stumperlowe article on site and wondered about source of this and the ‘Stump’ burial story
3 Archaeological connections: Matthew shared pictures of neolithic (?) quern- stone sites on Ringinglow moors from his work with Dr. Tim Cockrell and team from Sheffield Uni; led to discussion of rock art in Ecclesall woods and elsewhere in our area
4 Discussion around nature of our memories and our histories
5 House numbering: included ‘Stand’ area and racecourses in Broomhill & Redmires
6 Rights of way and local developments included
- Field behind Scout Hut
- Artic Monkeys
7 Looked through Histories ‘n’ Oddities ‘r’ Old Fulwood (HOOF) – booklets 1, 6 & 7. These were written, (probably over the last decade), by Susan Hedges who used to live at Beech Dene cottages
8 Future plans
- Next meeting – Thursday December 21st – mince pies?
- Set out rough plan for future meetings, including large ones
- To develop knowledge for collecting oral histories
- Possibility of having a ‘booth’ at events to collect people’s recollections