Living Memory - Coin Street heritage project

Living Memory is a heritage project based in Waterloo, South Bank and Bankside, encouraging local people to engage with and record the history of the area. 

Since it began in October 2009, the project has collated the heritage of individuals, community groups and organisations across the local area, reflecting how it has changed and developed within living memory, with a particular emphasis on diversity and community action.

So far over 300 local people have engaged in heritage trips, history walks, 
inter-generational workshops, film screenings, oral histories, art workshops and community events, which culminated in a very successful exhibition of the project’s work in 2011.

To find out more about the project so far, download the exhibition catalogue.

Living Memory in 2012

Following last year’s success, our steering group of volunteers will be meeting monthly to lead the direction of new activities in 2012. So far, sessions planned for the January-March period include guided museum tours, a film screening,

library groups and a prison walk! 

Steering group meetings

Wednesdays 15 Feb & 14 March
2.30-4.30pm
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Library group sessions

Tuesdays 6 Mar 10.30am
Waterloo Library, Lower Marsh
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Film screening

Friday 20 January 7pm
Coin Street neighbourhood centre
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River Police Museum visit 

Friday 24 February 1-4pm
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Prisons of SE1 history walk 

Saturday 25 February 11am
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Women’s history walk

Saturday 10 March 11am
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Romantics, Rationalists and
Housing Reformers

Sunday 18 March 11am
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Dickens in Southwark - Facts and fiction

Saturday 24 March 11am
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If you would like to find out more about the local area, help plan community events or have other ideas for the Living Memory project, please come along to our steering group meetings or contact Laura Reynolds: 020 7021 1600 or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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