Heritage projects that celebrate working class history across the region have been awarded tens of thousands of pounds from Historic England.
Six North East projects and four in Yorkshire will receive grants from the scheme which focuses on overlooked historic places, with a particular interest in recognising and celebrating working class histories.
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In Ripon, £11,000 has been awarded to the Ripon Museum Trust to run a project called ‘Disabled People and the Ripon Workhouse.’
It aims to uncover the stories of disabled people who were inmates or staff at Ripon Workhouse from Victorian times to the 1940s.
In Easington, County Durham, a grant of £10,000 to the charity Creative Lives will fund the project ‘Northern Souls - Going Down the Welly.’
It will focus on Easington Social Welfare Centre, built in 1929 and known locally as ‘The Welly’.
The project will celebrate the significance of Social Welfare Centres to working class communities locally and nationally.
In Seaham, a grant of just over £11,000 to Creative Youth Opportunities will allow young people to discover the town’s industrial heritage beyond coal mining.
They will do this by exploring the place names along the coastline through the project ‘What the Places Tell Us’ and then creating a mural in the town.
Meanwhile, in Gateshead, a grant of £7,000 has been awarded to Dunston Community Centre to run the project ‘Staiths & Me.’
Working with young people, it will celebrate the Staiths, the iconic wooden structure built in 1893 to drop more than 5.5 million tons of coal from Durham into ships for transportation around the world.
The announcement follows an open call earlier this year, inviting community or heritage organisations across the country to apply for grants of up to £25,000 in a bid to further the nation’s collective understanding of the past.
The projects were selected from more than 500 nation-wide applications and are among 57 successful bids being announced today (Tuesday July 26).
Duncan Wilson, Chief Executive of Historic England, said: "These community-led projects demonstrate that heritage is all around us and accessible to everyone.
"They will highlight that wherever people live they are surrounded by historic buildings, landscapes and streets, industrial and coastal heritage that can help bring communities together.
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“The histories of castles and great houses and their inhabitants are well documented, but we know far less about our everyday heritage.
"From council estates, pubs and clubs, to farms, factories and shipyards, these are the places where most people have lived, worked and played for hundreds of years.
"We want to explore these untold stories and celebrate the people and places at the heart of our history.”
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