Audio Dramas
Port Stories Locational Audio Dramas from James Harker and May Sumwanyambe.
Documentary
Port Stories Documentary from film-maker Jonny Randall.
Education Pack
Key Stage 3 History Education Pack from Karen Merrifield at Innovate Educate with support from Central High School.
Community
Research and Creative Responses from the Port Stories Community Group.Participating Artists
From November 2016 to March 2017, a group of 9 Community Artists worked alongside The Dukes to explore and respond to C18th Lancaster, the Port and its rich heritage. Lino-Cut Portraits by Rebecca Willmott.
Bob – Captain Samuel Sandys
A Historical Timeline and References about Captain Samuel Sandys
Emma – Lancaster Girl’s School
Emma Chandler explores the life of a young woman in C18th Lancaster.
Paula – A Letter to James
Dear James
I have just been looking through a box of old photos and came across the one of you when you were about 5 years old. The one where you are sitting on an old canon outside Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. At the time you would not have known that this place is part of your heritage.
Emma – The Story of Ellen Preston
Dear Miss Townson,
I wish to inform you that I have succeed in gaining a position with one of the most respectable families in Lancaster.
Phil – Port Stories and Me: The Happy Accident
It has been one of those happy accidents that life sometimes deals you.
Jilly – Port Stories and Me: Deaf History & Audiences
Sign language was not a formalised discreet language and few ordinary people were educated. How would a Deaf person have communicated with their family? After a trip to Preston archives, finding little documented evidence for Deaf culture it prompted me to ‘imagine’ this life.
Paula – Cape Coast Castle & Far Beyond
Cape Coast Castle was originally built by the Portuguese in the 15th century as a trading lodge to trade mainly in gold, which was plentiful in this part of Ghana. In 1653, it was taken over by Sweden’s conquest of Cape Coast, and a more permanent wooden fortress was built by the Swedish Africa Company for trade in gold and timber. Over time the fortress passed through the hands of the Danes and the Dutch before being conquered by the British in 1664, by which time the building had been reconstructed in stone.
Juliette – Port Stories and Me
I was fascinated by the stories behind some of the ships, most of all where they got their names.
Paula – Port Stories and Me
Due to my half Caribbean background, and having lived in Ghana in West Africa for three years, during which, I visited a couple of the slave forts along its coastline, I had a personal interest in finding out more about Lancaster's involvement in slavery during the 18th century.
Zylpha – Handmade in Lancaster: the Animation
Handmade in Lancaster - Animation by Christopher Blower. Words and narration by Zylpha Thomson.
Shane – the Artist’s Dilemma: Julius Ceasar Ibbetson
A contract: to paint a picture from Cable Street, Lancaster, and before the frontage of the German Sugar House.
Emma – Port Stories and Me
As my contribution towards the Port Stories project, I researched a relatively unknown charitable educational institution, called the Lancaster Girls’ Charity School.
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