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.
Shane – An Artist’s Contract
Embodying the mind and spirit of Julius Caesar Ibbetson.
Phil – Port Stories and Me: The Happy Accident
It has been one of those happy accidents that life sometimes deals you.
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.
Bob – Port Stories and Me
The Port Stories project has been a wonderful experience. I have learned an immense amount about the rich and varied history of Lancaster and got to meet with some wonderful people as part of the process.
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.
Zylpha – Handmade in Lancaster: the Animation
Handmade in Lancaster - Animation by Christopher Blower. Words and narration by Zylpha Thomson.
Emma – Lancaster Girl’s School
Emma Chandler explores the life of a young woman in C18th Lancaster.
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.
Zylpha – Handmade in Lancaster: the Text
Gillows of Lancaster, later known as Waring and Gillows, were furniture manufacturers. The firm started in the early 1700’s and finally closed in 1962 and for over 250 years they created furniture of outstanding quality, examples of which are still around today.
Shane – The Big Game Hunter
I first got involved with Port Stories because of the flyer. On it is an 18th century painting of a view of Lancaster. On the right hand side of the painting is a huge hull of a ship.
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.
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