Reminiscence resources
Reminiscence resources available for loan at Salford Museum and Art Gallery:
Handling boxes
The themed boxes contain original objects, photographs and other material that will trigger memories and stimulate reminiscences.
Boxes available include:
- Celebrations
Do you remember the pleasure of wearing your 'Sunday best''? The selection of objects in this box includes a wedding dress, photographs of Whit Sunday parades, and Chrismtas decorations, along with many more, to help bring to life memories of those special days! - Glitz and Glamour
Everything for the glamorous woman - clothes, hats, gloves, jewellery, a handbag, nylons, powder compact, all that was needed for the fashionable hair style; its even got the 'Evening in Paris' perfume! - His not Hers: Objects for Gentlemen
Braces and bow ties, collar studs and cigarette cases - everything apart from the cut throat razor! - Home Front Memories
Objects to bring back memories of wartime life - gas masks, dried egg, ration books - it even includes an evacuee's suitcase - Make Do and Mend
Includes a vintage hand sewing machine and objects relating to sewing, knitting, crochet and darning. Includes everything needed to have a go at making a peg rug - Mystery Objects
A mixture of weird and wacky objects that are sure to get people guessing. Can be used as a quiz - Pick and Mix
If you're not sure which topic to start with everyone is sure to find something to reminisce about with this selection of thirty objects that range from ladies bloomers to coronation souvenirs - Salford Heritage Bingo
This box combines the excitement of a game of bingo with the stimulation of a quiz and the opportunity to reminisce as well - Teenage Kicks: 1950s and 1960s Youth Culture
Go back to the era of shake, rattle and roll with a box full of objects, like prom dresses, a 1950s Bush radio and 12" vinyl records, to bring back memories of doing the twist and screaming at the Beatles. - The 1950s and 1960s
In 1957 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan declared that "Most Britons have never had it so good". With fabulous dresses, colourful wallpaper, glossy magazines and TV guiddes, the 1950s and 1960s box is sure to bring back memories of hte good life after the hard times of rations had ended. - Washing and Cleaning
Objects to remind you of when washing took all day and cleaning took real stamina - donkey stone, carbolic soap, dolly blue, flat iron, posser, pinny - everything except the elbow grease! - Working Lives
With tools, a 'Ready Reckoner', hard hats and photographs of men and women at work, this box is sure to get everyone's tongue wagging about work. It even contains a vintage bus conductors ticket machine!
You call questions instead of numbers and the box includes photos and objects as 'clues. A proportion of the questions are Salford related. Prizes not provided!
Picture packs
These are folders of black and white images copied from Salford Heritage Service's collection of over 50,000 photographs.
The packs enable people to enjoy looking at old photographs and share their memories of people, places and events. Packs are available on:
- Barton, Patricroft and Peel Green
- Boothstown
- Broughton
- Clifton and Pendlebury
- Cross Lane
- Eccles
- Hanky Park
- Haworth's Mill
- Irlam
- Irlams o'th'Height
- Langworthy and Seedley
- Little Hulton
- Monton
- Ordsall
- Royal Visits
- Swinton
- The Docks
- Walkden
- Whit Lane area
- Winton
- Worsley
- WW2 - The Home Front
Exhibitions
There are currently three exhibitions available for loan:
- Schooldays
- Shopping
- In the Kitchen
- At the Seaside
At just two metres wide the small eye catching displays are designed to fit restricted space in reception areas, lounges or dining rooms and are sure to trigger memories and stimulate reminiscences.
The pop-up display stands are accompanied by boxes of handling objects and photographs that can be used for reminiscence sessions.
Contacts
For information on borrowing resources, please contact Michelle Flye on 0161 778 0836.
For information on the Memories Matter project and reminiscence work, please contact Naomi Lewis on 0161 778 0881 or naomi.lewis@salford.gov.uk.
This page was last updated on 1 September 2010
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