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The group meet on Mondays at the Community Centre, Main Street from 10am to 1200. Evening sessions are planned to commence on the 1st Wednesday in each month from 6th February 2002.
They boast having a multi media archive of 1000 photographs and documents (August2001) the archive also contains contemporary photos which will become tomorrows history.in the community computer. They also have a physical archive (album to you) of the same, available for viewing.
So....... they are looking to extend the archive and inviting YOU to contribute if you have anything of interest, or if you would like to view, then call in at the above times, visitors are welcome to browse the
archive and will be able to search for people by name. Material is scanned and recorded and then returned to the contributor or it can be retained for the collection.
Below is a photograph of the Community
Archive group - Peter and Vera Garland, May Walker and Nick Croxall.
It really is well worth seeing, I hope lots of young people go to view the archive - to quote the foreword in Jim Melvins book ‘it is tremendously important and provides not only a sense of pride in our heritage, but also helps to stimulate our sense of belonging and the value of tradition’. Nick Croxall is standing next to Vera Garland.
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November 2002
Well now - you can visit the Community Archive Meeting at the Community Centre on Monday am’s............Or, you can now view the most of their valuable collection of records and pictures on the web at www.commanet.org
On Monday 18th November our group of intrepid archivists went down to the capital city, to the Britsh Museum no less, for the launch of a National Community
web site by TV personality Bamber Gascoigne.
The site has in excess of 20,000 items of which 2,000 items are a significant part of the Methley Archive Record. Congratulations to them all - but they havn’t finished collecting yet! They continue to invite you to the weekly archive meeting at the Community Centre to both view and to contribute additional photographs/records. I think its about time they did a ‘magic lantern show’ for the benefit of all those who don’t have a computer - they could raise some modest and much needed funds for the churches.
To navigate the commanet site click on search
double click on change to another archive
double click the required search categories
At the selected subject click the first picture and use the
forward arrow to advance
Beware - the link (hand symbol) does not appear on these two instructions.
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