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More Football Stories from Suffolk

Members of sporting groups in Lowestoft and Ipswich get to see the Footballing Stories Box, and listen to themselves as they recount favourite memories.

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What we do do …

Along with Dean Parkin, we visit Manor Farm Care Home in Kessingland, to learn about the residents’ favourite sports and pastimes and create a poem celebrating the things they choose to do – and one or two that they don’t.

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Footballing Stories from Suffolk

Members of the Ipswich Sporting Memories group get to experience the Extra Time Footballing Stories box – and are amazed and delighted by it.

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The Long Shop and The Hold

Volunteers from the Long Shop Museum in Leiston visit The Hold in Ipswich to explore the Garrett archives at first hand

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A framed certificate to the Halesworth and District Museum that reads We, the undersigned pupils of the Edgar Sewter Primary School award this certificate to Halesworth and District Museum in appreciation of the Extra Time we spent together finding out about our town - followed by several signatures. Also in the picture are two hand-crafted trophies and two Extra Time publications Blog posts

Extra Time Trophies All Round

The whole of Year 5 at the Edgar Sewter Primary School get to see what their pals have been doing on Extra Time and then the Museum staff get a big surprise during a school visit in the afternoon

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Extra Time at First Light Festival

The Extra Time team was thrilled to spend Saturday afternoon at the First Light Festival, inviting families to join our Supporters Club, award themselves a personalised medal, and fashion football players inspired by the Archive All-Stars

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Bingo – it’s a poem

This week, the poet Dean Parkin visited Beech House and, later, the school children at Edgar Sewter, to find out more about their special Extra Time skills and achievements and then weave them all into a poetic football team.

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Extra Time Season Opens in Halesworth

The start of a brand new Extra Time season, this time with residents at Beech House Care Home and pupils from the Edgar Sewter Primary School teaming up to explore the stories and traditions behind their local footballing history, using source materials from Halesworth and District Museum.

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