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Posts with tag: Suffolk Archives

Frank's mum knitted socks from scrap wool for welly boots Blog posts

Fish knives, knitted socks – and the sound of children playing

Residents at Harleston House in Lowestoft listen to some Extra Time stories, and share a few of their own.

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A plaster shield, with 9 individual discs each bearing a different face and the letters GFC Blog posts

How we work with heritage

We’re delighted to share a short video illustrating how we work with heritage to inspire creativity, nurture confidence and foster connections between people and the places they live.

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A slab of clay, marked in a circle with the word PEACE under the image of a flower and a bird Blog posts

Extra Time at the Heritage Open Days

As part of the national Heritage Open Days festival, Extra Time visited the Leiston Long Shop Museum, to exhibit participants’ work and make clay medals and the Heritage Skills Market at the Triangle in Lowestoft, to do a bit of giant knitting and table top weaving.

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A stack of old, worn leather covered books with marbled pages Blog posts

Brandy casks and books that smell of church

Artists Kate Munro, Caitlin Howells and Shelly O’Brien join Amanda and Candida and go exploring at The Hold, home to Suffolk Archives in Ipswich.

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Large banner and willow ball on beach with adults and children looking on Blog posts

Hot sand and molten metal, Extra Time has it all

From the dark red sand used in the wooden mould boxes at the Long Shop to the red hot sand on the beach at First Light, Extra Time celebrates Suffolk’s grassroot footballing heritage.

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A monochrome photo of a football team and a clay disc with figure of footballer with arms crossed. A pair of hands bottom left corner fashions clay to add detail and a white stick and small metal shell shape lie to one side Blog posts

Production lines and football sides – it’s all team work

Sculptor Ellie Rodwell and the Extra Time players explore the notion of teamwork, as experienced on production lines and in football teams.

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Layers of history Blog posts

Layers of history

The Extra Time adult team use old photographs of Leiston Works football teams to produce a beautiful series of cyanotypes.

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Two school girls, one in a purple and the other in a white T shirt have submerged sheets of A4 paper into shallow trays of water and are washing them as the picture emerges in the light sensitive blue paper Blog posts

Tracings, blue prints and cyanotypes

The Extra Time teams examine some old blue prints at Leiston Long Shop and then create their own.

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