The Family Album - a social history photo book and exhibition Over the last few months I've been meeting residents from two areas of new housing in Bolton and collecting photos from their family albums. The aim is to create a book full of photos, stories and memories of growing up in and around Bolton. The project began like many of my projects at the archives of Bolton Museum. Looking at old maps I discovered old railway lines and mills that are no longer in existence. One o

Funded by Bolton at Home, "Our Stories" is a digital storytelling project with participants of Brass - a charity working with asylum seekers and refugees in Bolton : http://www.brassbolton.org/ The asylum seekers, refugees and volunteers talk on camera about cultural stories, traditions and myths from their own countries of origin. These include the mystical appearance of a mermaid called 'Mami Wata' who appears in central and west Africa. Others participants talk about items