This website was created with a group of 25 women from the Vine Centre, North Belfast, who took part in the Women in the Archives strand of the Making the Future programme from September-November 2019. For eight weeks, participants engaged with the history of North Belfast and shared stories and memories of growing up in this interface area, working in local mills and factories and going to the "pictures'.
This website contains a series of podcasts and albums with a selection of images from PRONI's collections and participants' personal archives.
Podcast 1
Podcast 2
Podcast 3
Participants
Lilian Armstrong | Nan Angus | Sally Carmichael | Winnie Gray | Mavis Henry | Margaret Kayes | Frances Kidd | Carole Higginson | Eleanor Jamison | Cathy Lundy | Betty Mahood | Catherine Maxwell | Isabel McClung | Carolyn Newell | Lorna Osborne | Margaret Patterson | Amy Quigley | Jenny Robinson | Rosemary Rice | Heather Scott | Helen Wigston | Betty Wilson | June Wilson | Phyllis Weir | Sandra Palmer
Our Memories Storymap
From the Archives
Women in the Archives Programme
This project included a number of activities. The group spent a day in PRONI learning about the work of the official archive for Northern Ireland and engaging with some documents and photos from their local area. Participants also took part in a guided tour of the Crumlin Road Gaol, watched the short film 'The Curzon Project' and spoke to Sebastian Graham about his Mills of Northern Ireland project. At the end of the project, they recorded their memories of living in North Belfast and scrapbooked about their experience of the programme.
Many thanks to Elizabeth Anderson for bringing Women in the Archives to the Vine Centre and to the participants for their engagement and enthusiasm for this project.
Programme facilitated by Laura Aguiar and Lynsey Gillespie (PRONI) and Jude Mullan (Nerve Centre) in partnership with the Vine Centre.
Making the Future is supported by EU PEACE IV programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).