To access the Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network - Please click on:- www.ccan.co.uk

It currently has 47 local community archive groups right across the county, the majority are from Cambridgeshire villages, but they also include groups as diverse as a Romany theatre group, to Robert Sayles Memory store, to Cam-Mind to Addenbrookes Archives.  Together all these groups have uploaded over 12,500 images and memories and more are being added each week.

If you are interested why don't you contact your local group and join in, see below for contact details

To contact the CCAN, please in all instances first contact the CCAN Secretary by clicking here  your enquiry will then be promptly dealt with

CCAN County Executive Committee

To find all the CCAN Local Group website homepages, email addresses and the groups contact details, please click here for a very comprehensive and interactive list

The Background & History of the Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network

Cambridgeshire’s community heritage is both valuable and fragile.  Intriguing information, in the form of photographs, documents and memories about community life, is all too often lost to subsequent generations.

The Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network (CCAN) aims to preserve this diverse and easily lost source of cultural and community heritage, and will make it available to the widest possible audience online.

TALKS & EVENTS:

Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network

Agenda for AGM Meeting on 29th April 2010

To all CCAN Local Groups, the CCAN Chairman cordially invites you all to the Annual General Meeting of the Cambridgeshire Community Archive Network which will be held at Countess of Ely Church, 10 Chapel Street, Ely CB6 1AD on Thursday May 29th April 2010 at 19.00

(map of venue available at www.calh.org.uk/ccan.htm)

(Please note: we would warmly welcome all CCAN local group members, however, each Local Group will only have one vote)

• Chairman’s Welcome:
• Apologies for absence:
• Minutes of the meeting 30th April 2009:
• Matters Arising:
• Chairman’s report:
• Treasurer’s report:
• CCAN technical team report:
• Election of Officers:
• Technical Amendments to the agreement of Association between CALH & CCAN:
• Proposed arrangement with Cambridgeshire County Council to formalise webhosting arrangements:
• AGM closes:

The formal part of the meeting will be followed by a comfort/refreshment break and then a talk by one of Cambridgeshire’s leading local historians - Michael Rouse.  Michael will give us a talk on a subject that he has carried out a lot of research on and one that he is passionate about:

The Evacuation of the

Central Foundation Girls' School to Ely and District

Michael, along with his co-author Anthony Day has been awarded one of CALH’s Book Awards for 2010, for “Soham & Wicken through Time”; they have both also

been awarded one of our long service and dedication to Local History Awards.

Groups are invited to produce a small display/poster about their group.  These displays can be viewed before the meeting and during the break.

CCAN was developed with the support of a Heritage grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The grant funded a two-year project led by Cambridgeshire County Council's (CCC) Libraries, Archives and Information Service. Project staff included Steve Capes (Project Manager), Matthew Hall and Gilly Vose (Community Archive Officers) and Karen Davies (Archives Liaison Officer). With the assistance of CCC a website (www.ccan.co.uk) was developed and an initial three year period of web-hosting and support was provided for CCAN groups. Each community group has created its own digital archive on the CCAN website, using local Community Access Points (which form part of the Cambridgeshire Community Network, supported by CCC and established with the assistance of District and City Councils) and a wide spectrum of other community locations including libraries, village halls and sheltered housing schemes.

The CCAN project funding draws to a close at the end of November 2008 and the successful cross-searchable county network will continue to be run by a volunteer-led Executive Committee, ensuring a key project aim, sustainability, is met.  The CCAN Executive Committee has worked hard to have structures and relationships in place for the project handover in November.  This has included developing a long-term ‘association’ with the Cambridgeshire Association of Local History (CALH), which has a broad spectrum of objectives and aims, complementing those of the CCAN.  CALH will use its wide-ranging contacts, experience, and knowledge base to help nurture and guide CCAN, while allowing it to maintain its own sense of identity, administration, and independence.  The CALH website (www.calh.org.uk/ccan.htm) has a section dedicated to CCAN and allows direct access to CCAN group homepages.

Cambridgeshire County Council will continue to offer assistance to CCAN beyond November 2008, both by providing web-hosting and support to CCAN, but also by the continued involvement with the Executive Committee of the Project Manager, Steve Capes.

At the handover in November, CCAN will have 46 community groups across Cambridgeshire.  These groups are independent, with their own finances and management.  Many have chosen to be closely linked to their village local history societies, while others operate on their own.

To download this flyer please click here  

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Cambridgeshire Industrial Archaeology Society

Secretary: Peter Filby

8 Sedgwick Street, Cambridge, CB1 3AJ - 01223 244305

 The Society's aim is to study and record the industrial history and artefacts of Cambridgeshire. It is affiliated to the Association of Industrial Archaeology (AIA) and the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History, and is one of the founder members of the East of England industrial Archaeology Conference (EERIAC).

The Society commissions and publishes occasional Monographs on Cambridge industrial subjects written by its members.

Meetings, visits and conferences are open to everyone with an interest in industrial history.

Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of the winter months at the Friends’ Meeting House, Jesus Lane, Cambridge at 7.45 p.m.  Subscriptions currently £4.00 yearly & 50p per meeting; visitors £1.00 each visit.

EERIAC XX - East of England Regional

Industrial Archaeology Conference 2010

Saturday 5th June 2010 0930 - 1700

The Long Shop Museum, Main Street, Leiston

Programme:

Portrait of a Family-The Suffolk Garretts,

1600 to the Present Day

Margaret Young

Smyths of Peasenhall-A Suffolk Dynasty

Les Larnder

Guided Tour of Museum during Lunch Break

Field visit to Thorpeness

with Bob Malster

For more details & how to book click here

Talks for New Autumn 2010 & Spring 2011 Season

For a complete list click here

Monday 11th October 2010

Joint meeting with the Cambridgeshire Association for Local History

Atlas / Eternit of Meldreth

George Joyce

Monday 8th November 2010

Fowells of St Ives - a new DVD introduced

Ken Ballard

Monday 13th December 2010

Building replicas of Early Clocks

Don Unwin

Monday 10th January 2011

AGM: Digital, Print & Transpaprency Photo Competition & Members mini-presentations

Monday 14th February 2011

Elizabeth Gunning & the Bridgewater Canal

John Rolfe

Monday 14th March 2011

Photographic Reconnaissance

S J Deakin

Monday 11th April 2011

The History of Food Factories

Don Ives

EERIAC

The East of england Regional Industrial Archaeology Conference is normally held on the second Saturday in June each year.  In spite of its grand tilte, there are fairly informal affairs, and all are welcome, even if not members of CIAS.  The usual format is for talks in the morning, followed by a tour round local sites of interest.

EERIAC 2011 is due to be held in Norfolk.