Swale Migration Stories

An innovative & interactive Heritage Lottery funded family heritage project exploring who we are through migration in all its forms.

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80 year old fundraiser Dale parachuted in today to collect his flying jacket, from our display on WW2 Black British RAF spitfire pilot Sergeant Duke. @HeritageFundUK @SwaleCVS @SwaleCouncil @HistoricSwale #HeritageIsOpen #HeritageMonth #heritage #rafhistory #blackbritishheroes

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Big thanks to @HeritageFundUK for their support. Our exhibition may be closed but our legacies continue to support our community #heritage #HeritageIsOpen
Thanks to the #nationallottery players @SwaleCVS @HistorySitt

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@HeritageFundL_S our swale migration stories exhibition tour has come to an end and we are ensuring our legacies to the community continue to raise awareness #heritage #Migration @TNLUK #HeritageIsOpen #heritage
Thanks to #nationallottery Players

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/1czms1HUbS

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Just posted a photo @ Sittingbourne Methodist Church https://t.co/MtS8DdZELI

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Just posted a photo @ The Forum Shopping Centre https://t.co/3Ud3gphwn5

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/g2ISClJ94B

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/zLheDqzMv8

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/odzRRfOBrE

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Our amazing oral history project 'Tale's from Dockyard Church' is now online. Here is a submission from Tim Bell who remembers as a child sending fireworks towards the army barracks 'to see if they would get a reaction"! @HeritageFundL_S @HeritageFundUK
https://t.co/slA7Y1mjDN

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Interested in becoming a museum curator? Follow this link to see more https://t.co/b8smHznAHu

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Announcing the theme of #RefugeeWeek2021: We Cannot Walk Alone. Join us 14-20 June: https://t.co/w67LTWEjEN Do share🌻

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Could you use your skills to support Minster Gatehouse #Museum? They need someone to #photograph their exhibits https://t.co/wgVrTCAC2A and someone to do digital archiving https://t.co/XbKq7D7nk4 Both are short-term, flexible #volunteer roles #sheppey #kent @RoseCottageofC

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Part of our Project is working with artists who can help inspire our young volunteers. Local artist Clair Meyrick has worked with us to share stories of her Irish and European ancestry. Clair created this stunning dress using vintage world currency and banana paper. #heritage

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Young volunteers enjoying workshop at the Dolphin Barge Museum in Sittingbourne learning traditional techniques of dyeing.
Thanks to Tallie Linseed, Eric the pug🐶 and @raybelcharters for facilitating. #heritage #swalehistory #barge #youngvolunteer

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A big thank you to the heritage lottery fund and National Lottery players for supporting Swale Migration Stories #ThanksToYou #NationalLottery

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Our Visit to @murstonheArt with Event co-ordinator Sioux Peto. The church is one of two scheduled ancient monuments in Swale and of national importance. The site today is being restored and a new visitor centre and creative space will be built.

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Our visit to Queenborough Guildhall Museum. The building once the local court and jail house has been a museum for the last twenty years. There is a varied collection inside of Queenborough's rich history. Here area few of our finds. #migration #swale #queenborough #localhistory

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Our amazing volunteers have created a pop up window display at the Heritage Hub in the Forum shopping centre. The window is full of suitcases and artworks that represent collective Migration Stories. If you are passing by, please take the time to have a look

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Are you a #SwaleMigrationStories young volunteer?
Join our own Co-Curator Chantelle from on Wednesday 28 October for our FREE Half Term workshop.
*Bring any item of your choice that you can tell a story about*
Speak to Justin for more details.
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