Recording the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

This People's Record project created a short documentary about Erith Yacht Club and Erith Rowing Club, commissioned by Bexley Local Studies & Archive Centre. Bexley Local Studies & Archives Centre exists to collect, preserve and make accessible local studies and archival material relating to the London Borough of Bexley. The archive collections include the records of the London Borough of Bexley and its predecessors 1888- to date, schools 1800 to date, churches 1500 to date, estates, people, businesses and societies. The local studies collection comprises of newspapers from 1873 to the present; unique photographs, postcards and illustrations; books and journals on all aspects of Bexley, Kent and London; pamphlets; posters; oral histories; films and videos, local maps and plans, from around the 18th Century to present; census records; street and trade directories and south east London telephone directories from 1940 onwards.