“We’re not scared…” – help us with a new project

How are you dealing with daily life during the Covid-19 outbreak?

In Olveston, as you can see from the pictures above, families on lockdown have joined other families around the world in being inspired by Michael Rosen’s book ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’, with its famous line:  “We’re not scared…”.

Teddy bears are being put in windows for people to spot on their daily walk.

With that as an example, our museum wants your assistance with a community history project for 2020.

PLEASE HELP US GATHER AND KEEP THE HISTORY OF CORONAVIRUS (COVID 19) 2020

Coronavirus (Covid 19) 2020 will become history and, in classrooms in the future, children will be learning about this.

As a museum, we want to gather, document and keep preserved for the future a rounded picture of the current situation, as experienced in Thornbury and the surrounding district.

(Our Museum, by the way, is called Thornbury AND DISTRICT because our collecting area covers 14 other parishes besides Thornbury: Almondsbury, Alveston, Aust (including Elberton and Littleton-upon-Severn), Charfield, Cromhall, Falfield, Hill, Oldbury-on-Severn, Olveston (including Old Down and Tockington), Pilning and Severn Beach, Rangeworthy, Rockhampton, Tortworth and Tytherington.)

We are hoping that those of you in all these areas who are willing and able to do so, would be interested in keeping notes or a diary and photos of some of the experiences that you or your friends and family have during this time.

Those experiences might relate to shopping, health, travelling, communication, home schooling, working, home entertainment – or anything else that’s important to you. We would like to hear about anything, no matter how insignificant you may think it is.

You can send us information at any time, or you may prefer to wait until this episode in our history has passed.

There is a special email address for this project: museum.thornbury@gmail.com

Or you can send by post to:
Thornbury & District Museum
c/o The Town Hall
35 High Street
Thornbury
BS35 2AR

By submitting information, the museum will assume that your permission is given for the material to be used in the future. This could be in print, on-line or in one of our exhibitions.

When the museum reopens, we will start to go through all that we have received from you. We realise this is a huge request at this time, but we hope that you are able to help with this project, enabling us to capture how our community experienced this unprecedented situation.

Please, do share this information as widely as possible.

We wish you all the very best.  Stay safe.