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Medals / again

Some more detailed images of the medals we used for inspiration with the Cromarty youth group - they made their own contemporary medals for Cromarty in response to the ones we saw from the Courthouse collection.

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Workshop presentation / Fourways Club / Cromarty

Last week I got together with the Fourways Club - they are a group for over 60′s in and around Cromarty. They can be quite an enthusiastic bunch with a wide range of ages and backgrounds - from a woman who used to run a local newsagents to another who will be 100 years old next year.

Paul and I talked about the background of the Coming Home WW1 project - there are a number of the group whose relatives were alive at the end of the First World War so there was an immediate connection. Talking about our research of what life was like in Cromarty during and after the war was then opened up for some of the members to share stories they had heard from relatives, and pieces of history they had picked up through the years.

We shared some of the artefacts Paul had brought along - and talked of their significance. With this group we’ll be looking at the civilian passes that residents had to keep with them at all times, due to Cromarty being under Naval control throughout the war. These details really shed life on what everyday life must have been like, and how everything changed in the months that followed the end of the war. 

In our next session with the group, we’ll be recreating residents’ passes and researching the groups’ relatives who were resident during WW1 and discovering more on everyday life.

Cat Meighan