A HISTORY project has received a funding boost to record and capture the memories of women who worked at Cam Mills.

Women who were born in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and who worked at the mill will be interviewed for the archive titled "Women's Work in Cam Mills". 

The project has been awarded approximately £9,940 through Historic England’s everyday heritage grant programme. 

The Cam project was the only scheme selected in the county with six similar projects due to take place in Bristol, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and Dorset. 

A spokesperson from Historic England said: “This project will produce an oral history archive of the experiences of women’s work in an area of Gloucestershire historically associated with cloth manufacture. 

“Cam Mills is the last of around 200 historic cloth mills that are still standing in the area. 
  
“The project will record the memories of women who worked at Cam Mills who were born in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s to capture recollections of employment, domestic work and social changes during the period. 

“All the recordings will be entered into the Gloucestershire Archive and accessible via QR codes along local walking trails.”

The project will be delivered by GL11 Community Hub and is the charity’s second oral history project in Cam and Dursley.

A previous project gathered people’s stories about living and working in Dursley, particularly in male-dominated engineering firms.

Selected clips are still featured via QR codes around the Dursley Sculpture & Play Trail at Twinberrow Woods.

A GL11 Community Hub spokesperson said: “This latest phase seeks to fill out a more well-rounded archive of past lives in Cam and Dursley. 

“We hope to attract future additional funding to further help with dissemination and public awareness, and access to, this important historic archive of our local community.”

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