Progress |
August 2000 to January 2001 U3A teams and Friends of CHiDE team recruited and trained U3A Groups and Themes Five U3A groups are participating in the project. They are: Basildon, Essex, who will be looking at domestic technology Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire,who will be investigating the impact of changes in agricultural technology and industrial processes in their local area Southampton, Hampshire, who will be talking to former employees of Vosper Thorneycroft about technological developments in ship building Stamford, Lincolnshire, who have taken building conservation technology as their theme Wokingham, Berkshire, who will be looking at the impact of the communications technology revolution on the local community and economy The Friends of CHiDE will be developing earlier work on the development of radar, gathering recollections from those involved in this pioneering work to help contextual images from the Fisher archive. |