On a boiling hot day, I worked the East End Women's Museum stand at the festival. Great day out.
Our stand had posters, videos and voiceover about East End Women's heritage. And my oral history recording provided some quotes for the posters, and my voice was on the audio track!!! I was talking about the Ford Machinists strike, and my description of the strike's cause and purpose was what they liked!
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| Whole poster |
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| Photograph of Ford Machinist strikers |
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| Part of my oral history recording |
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| One of my quotes |
So I spent a lot of the day talking to visitors to the stand, including one of the female councillors. She told me that Darren, Chairman of the Council would be present. This female councillor said that he would have the contacts to get in touch with the Ford Machinists. So I had a chat with Darren, who, having done his bit promoting the event, and was rushing off with his wife to a family wedding. He said Ford Machinists had received a lot of publicity recently, and some would not want to be bothered. I said I was well aware of this, and absolutely supported this point of view, but if there were any who were interested in my project I'd like to make contact. He gave me his email address, and I will be writing to him. I need to get my pitch right before getting stuck in. Thought required.
This meant it was a day well spent.
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