On November 23rd we ran the third Irene Cranwell Memorial Lecture. This year it took the form of an afternoon exhibition plus evening talk. We were very pleased to work with SOCA, the Society of Chrishall Artists at this event. Chrishall Archive Group had a history exhibition in the main Chapel Hall and SOCA had an art exhibition in the South Hall.
In the evening the Archive Group welcomed Christopher South and Tom Doig to give their reminiscences of working with Irene Cranwell when she broadcast with them on Radio Cambridgeshire.
It was a lovely day of history and art and we were very pleased to welcome a range of visitors across the day. If you couldn’t make it here are a few pictures to give you a flavour of the day.
Preparation time
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A quick discussion on what’s going where…
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All go to get everything into place in time. We only had an hour an half to get set up!
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Nearly ready to go – you can see the timelines here with the first boards which were about Chrishall’s very earliest history in Iron Age and Roman times.
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Laying out dates on the timelines.
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The Archive ‘shop’ for the day. Local old postcards were popular and we had some lovely local Christmas cards available.
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Next to the ‘shop’ was our large poster of The Green which features pictures from early 1900 to 1960.
Show time
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Banner has arrived – we are nearly ready to go!
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More timeline entries for the Red Cow, Church and Windmill areas.
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We had visitors from the time we opened and there were still people walking round as we started to prepare for the evening talk.
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Scanning some of the lovely photographs that were brought along on the day.
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The ‘Tech Team’ corner provided fantastic sound and lighting support particularly in the evening for the talk.
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Visitors came from Norfolk and Worcestershire as well as ‘locals’.
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Looking towards the wartime, sport and trade boards.
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Many tales swapped during the day…
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Caroline tries out the piano organ used to provide music for the chapel services before the chapel was built – so before 1862. Still works well!
Evening Talk
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Nearly there – just waiting for the audience to arrive. Speakers arriving in the background!
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An introduction by me – Rosemarie – on Irene Cranwell’s early years.
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Tom Doig and Christopher South entertaining us with stories.
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