What games did you play? What were school dinners like? Who was your best friend?  These are some of the questions children at Tidemill Primary School have been asking older volunteers in a project set up to record memories of school and school life years ago.

 "OH MY DAYS"  was uttered by interviewers when discovered something new or unexpected about their school, or how schools used to be.

The Victorian buildings which house Tidemill Primary School are due to close in a couple of years. As Tidemill looks to the future and a new school on a new site, this project has been working with the local community to collect the memories of 18 pupils, past and present. The resulting audio-visual archive was exhibited through a collection of installations and sculptures at the APT Gallery.

Each scale model was build to record particular spaces around the school, through headphones the audience could hear memories that correlated with each space.

the scale models were build by Jack Brown, and the Audio archive embedded in the scale models collected by a group of 8 pupils and edited by Oral Historian Carrie Harvey.

year 5 + 6 Pupils added their 'Memory Boxes' to the exhibition, there was an interactive cloakroom, images of the schools log books ( recording the schools life during World War 2 and detailing its Evacuation to St Leonard's on Sea ). There was an opportunity to leave your own memories of school life on a 'school notice board' and over 100 visitors did......