Covkid1968#
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Donkey kick rides…. I like it
Donkey kick rides…. I like itThey could offer Donkey rides…
Not what I was thinking but that’s good.Donkey kick rides…. I like it
I've tweeted Kevin Kyle and Clive Platt to see if they're interested.They could offer Donkey rides…
Thank you!I've tweeted Kevin Kyle and Clive Platt to see if they're interested.
I'll repeat, use the resources of the city archive. Villa etc tried having a dedicated archive and they had to make the staff redundant, so we'd have little chance.Making some space at the arena for an archive with programmes and newspapers, kit collection, a few key pieces, maybe move the bus up there too. Combine it with a few interactive things, a look behind the scenes, I’d go for a day out just for the hell of it.
We could have the bag of poo that was supposedly thrown at Sunderland fans so people can see it in person. Inspirational
What about a Coventry Sports Museum?
Could have CCFC, Blaze, CRFC stuff, athletes from the city, local teams from days gone by, loads of interactive stuff. Reckon it could be quite popular if done right.
Different subject, but this kind of thing to host itKnow what I’d love, talking about oral history? A database of chants. Would take someone to go and actually get the recordings, but I think it would be an amazing oral history project.
Know what I’d love, talking about oral history? A database of chants. Would take someone to go and actually get the recordings, but I think it would be an amazing oral history project.
Point of order, but not so cheap if adhering to archival standards for preservation!Digital archive capacity is so cheap.
Point of order, but not so cheap if adhering to archival standards for preservation!
Local authority archives, whose whole aim is to preserve things for perpetuity, so they don't just vanish / be inaccessible one day. They took a while to get going (local authority!) so are still very much in catch-up mode, but the basic principle is, the same as you can go and see and touch a charter from the 13th century, in a thousand years' time somebody will also be able to go and listen to some goon shouting shit on the villa. The battle atm is to get those with the budgets to acknowledge the need... as it's now taking, arguably, more of their resource to set up these tools and sites for preservation than printed artifacts.Yeah but who does that?
Local authority archives, whose whole aim is to preserve things for perpetuity, so they don't just vanish / be inaccessible one day. They took a while to get going (local authority!) so are still very much in catch-up mode, but the basic principle is, the same as you can go and see and touch a charter from the 13th century, in a thousand years' time somebody will also be able to go and listen to some goon shouting shit on the villa.
It's now taking, arguably, more of their resource to set up these tools and sites for preservation than printed artifacts.
This is something Exeter City did, which was mostly online. The Grecian archive has all the old programs, player details, and team photos, They had help with some grants. Quite good really.
Exeter City Football Club | ECFC Museum | Exeter
The ECFC Museum | Exploring the history and heritage of Exeter City Football Clubwww.ecfcmuseum.com
The point being, history is beyond just the Magna Carta, and it's the everyday history that colours the past. It's just as important in preservation sense for that to be preserved as anything else, or it ends up distorting the past for people coming to analyse it in the future. In the past, it'd be who could write that was the main reason we only have a snapshot of a certain area, but now there's little excuse for that other than the will to actually do it.I don’t foresee a future where AWS not only loses my stuff but disappears in a way that means I can’t get it first and repost. I appreciate you wouldn’t store the digital equivalent of the Magna Carta on it, but a recording of 500 pissed bloke singing “oh Callum Doyle it could have been you” isn’t the Magna Carta. And if there’s any hurdle that would stop the club getting on board it would be money.
The point being, history is beyond just the Magna Carta, and it's the everyday history that colours the past. It's just as important in preservation sense for that to be preserved as anything else, or it ends up distorting the past for people coming to analyse it in the future. In the past, it'd be who could write that was the main reason we only have a snapshot of a certain area, but now there's l;ittle excuse.
And cost is also why it's maybe worth the club talking to the local authority archive, to see if there is any possibility of partnership. They'll also have experience of applying to funding bodies for this kind of thing... and also the facility to store items whenever whatever the project it is, is completed.
There are a number of ways you can do this. If it's club led they'd be well advised to go down the path of talking to the professionals in those areas. If it's fan led, then it's well advised talking to people like the Nuneaton people (the Exeter one is a fine example - I've used them myself in the past) etc.
But each comes with its own strengths... and limitations.
I'd actually be writing the project first - talking to the various stakeholders about what would be possible with their involvement (or without! It might be that the response from some is very depressingly apathetic... or you might be surprised) and what they could offer in terms of help and resource - get your bids in to the Arts Council / Heritage Lottery / Local Coventry charities to fund it.Would a first step not be to just grab some storage and start collecting/organising/normalising the stuff though? How long before you need archive standard?
I'd actually be writing the project first - talking to the various stakeholders about what would be possible with their involvement (or without! It might be that the response from some is very depressingly apathetic... or you might be surprised) and what they could offer in terms of help and resource - get your bids in to the Arts Council / Heritage Lottery / Local Coventry charities to fund it.
My experience says that you start off just doing it and sometimes that's great, and I can show you plenty of sites where that works in the end, don't get me wrong. Can also show you plenty of sites where it ends up a load of chaos to unravel and / or people run out of steam very quickly and it becomes all a bit half-arsed.
Sometimes it's best to actually define what you want to get out of it and how you'll do that.
I can just see fights in the playground over who stole the Shiny BiamouThings like this always work best with interactive stuff, so you could test how hard you can kick it, save penalties, shooting accuracy. Even stuff like running against a speed gun and how far can you do a throw-in.
On another note where someone mentioned about collecting the info of all the old players etc., I love this to happen and for it to be gturned into a Panini style sticker album. great way to get kids involved to start with and can be passed down from parent to child to carry on.
can I use a trebuchetThings like this always work best with interactive stuff, so you could test how hard you can kick it, save penalties, shooting accuracy. Even stuff like running against a speed gun and how far can you do a throw-in.
On another note where someone mentioned about collecting the info of all the old players etc., I love this to happen and for it to be gturned into a Panini style sticker album. great way to get kids involved to start with and can be passed down from parent to child to carry on.
Is there? I wasn’t aware of that.
I think it was moved to the transport museum by the cup final bus
There’s a CCFC bit in the Herbert isn’t there?
Guess part of the issue is where to put it. We don’t own the stadium and it’s a bit out of the way for non-match day visitors
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