Taking Part

@ Melton Carnegie Museum

We are developing a new Community Archive, a local history resource generated by people in the area.
“Taking Part” is an oral history project all about sport.

The project involves collecting stories about the various ways in which people in Melton Mowbray and the surrounding Borough take part in sports at amateur and professional level and as spectators and supporters.

A number of interviews have already been conducted and are available for consultation in the Museum.
See a list of what is available here (Word)

KD: [Sighs]. I guess my greatest sporting moment was when our senior team of Asfordby got to the League Cup Final and won. I remember it really well. We all got on a bus and went on a bus and my best friend’s husband, Jim Reason, made up a song and we was all singing it on the bus. And a good atmosphere on the way down. And then we won that game 1-nil and it was a good achievement for my friend who started it, obviously Sharon who started it all up, to actually see her face, ‘cause she was playing in it as well, to see her face when we actually won it. So it was good to see.

Listen to this extract (mp3 - 135kb - 45 seconds)

Over the next four years in the lead up to the London Olympics 2012 we will be adding more interviews.

The interviews are available for reference for you to listen to or read at the museum.

Taking Part Oral History Interviews

If you feel there is an aspect of Melton Mowbray’s sporting achievements which we should record please contact us.

Taking Part

@ Melton Carnegie Museum

Taking Part Oral History Interviews

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