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Dec 2024
Ripon trust receives council grant for new history project
Ripon Military Heritage Trust (RMHT) has secured a £1,000 grant to purchase recording equipment as part of a new oral history project.
The equipment will be used to capture memories of military activity in the Ripon area during and after the Second World War.
The trust is now appealing for people with stories to tell and for volunteers to undertake the interviews.
The trust has already undertaken trial recordings of two national service period soldiers who served in Ripon, one a member of the White Helmets motorbike display team, and the other, Arthur Lampkin a champion motocross rider.
Their stories are now preserved for future generations. Now the trust is seeking to roll out this oral history programme to capture more memories before they are lost, and all prospective interviewers will be fully trained and equipped by the trust.
The grant comes from the council’s Stronger Communities Programme Inspire Fund, which supports communities to help themselves and create local solutions.
It aims to allow communities in North Yorkshire to have greater collective control of their own wellbeing, reduce inequalities and improve social connectedness.
Chairman of Ripon Military Heritage Trust, Guy Wilson, said:
We have already learnt so much about military life and activity around Ripon from speaking to people who were there. We now want to capture that and more on recordings before it is too late. So that the contributions of the people who served in Ripon can be properly understood and remembered into the future and the many humorous and illuminating anecdotes about army life are not lost to us all.
It is always a privilege and a delight to interview people and find out about what amazing things they have done or witnessed and so I know that those who volunteer to help us will find the experience enormously interesting and satisfying.
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