Copyright of Terrie Knibb May is Local and Community History month aiming to raise awareness of history in a local setting and getting people involved and contributing. Local Scrapbooker, Terrie Knibb, who has received national acclaim for her work, having been previously named UKS Scrapper of the month and featured as Guest Designer on several international scrapbooking portals, will be exhibiting some of her local heritage layouts in Castle Bromwich library between May 16th and May 30th.
Terrie has recently embarked upon a major new project to scrapbook the heritage of Castle Bromwich for future generations. Terrie explains that her interest in Scrapbooking came about because of her own research into her family history. Whilst uncovering little bits of information about her family’s past, she longed to know more about the people they really were, their thoughts, their opinions, where they stood on the issues of the day, what they had to eat. Determined that her own descendants would not want for such information about her own life, Terrie started to record the details of her daily life and beliefs in her scrapbook pages.
Over the years, Terrie’s interests have expanded slightly, and her current project aims to record the past and present life of Castle Bromwich. In order to achieve her aim, Terrie is looking for residents of Castle Bromwich to supply her with copies of photographs that show how life in Castle Bromwich was lived in the past and is lived today together with permission for her to use them in her layouts and to display them where appropriate. At present Terrie is hoping to compile a subsection of the project which consists of weddings and brides of Castle Bromwich through the ages, so copies of any wedding photos that you feel able to provide, together with the details of any people in the photos, would be gratefully accepted.
Terrie has also been working on another subsection of the project showing the activities of local community groups in Castle Bromwich. Again any photos that would assist in this aspect of the project would be gratefully received.
Terrie stresses that she would like to receive copies of photographs that cover all aspects of Castle Bromwich life, occupations, furniture styles, clothing, transport etc. together with any little anecdotes that will help to give them meaning. She has recently researched into the effects of the flu pandemic in 1918-19 because of the devastating effect that it had on her husband’s family, testimony of which is displayed in the local graveyard and has incorporated her research into a Scrapbook layout featuring her husband’s Great-Aunt who died as a result of the pandemic. . If anybody has similar stories of this or any other event, please share them with her. If any other local Scrapbookers would like to assist in this project, further details can be obtained from Terrie Knibb by emailing her at castlebromwich@live.co.uk The project will consist of traditional paper based Scrapbooking, Digital layouts and Hybrid layouts.
Copyright of Terrie Knibb
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