"I hope they don't pull all the sports arenas down after 'cos it will be good to use them"
Jake Spoke
What did the Olympic and Paralympic Games mean to you?
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were a once in a lifetime event. To record the impact of the Games, from 2010-2012 museums, libraries and archives around the UK supported community groups to collect and create material related to the Games, past and present. This website showcases the results.
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Featured projects
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Sporting activities in Thurrock
This is a collection of individual items relating to sporting activities in Thurrock. The items were collected by… -
Hadleigh: Remembering and Change
The Essex Record Office worked with the HLF-funded Hadleigh Community Archive to collect oral histories from Hadleigh… -
Rugby League Oral Histories
The oral history recordings, photographs and other records which comprise this collection were created at a Rugby League… -
Talking Sport
A collection of video and audio of people from Barton upon Humber and the surrounding area remembering their… -
Imagine sport
The project has been delivered by Carl Jaycock on behalf of Telford & Wrekin Council, and builds on the previous… -
Believe it Achieve it!
Believe it Achieve It’ was a project delivered in the London borough of Brent which recorded people’s…
