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This year we weren’t at Crick – a mix of CRT outsourcing the entertainment programming and budget cuts. We were sorry not to be there alongside the historic boats bringing some of their stories to life. However, the first of the heatwaves meant we were actually just a little bit relieved when it came to it. But we were there in spirit, with a Virtual Crick Fringe, broadcast from under a (well several, moving with the shade!) tree. Kate opened each of the three days with a live broadcast on our Facebook page and included a mix of existing recordings and video with some more live pieces. It was a first for us – not sure we reached the anticipated audience of thousands but we learned a lot and had some lovely feedback.
You can watch/listen to all the content here:
A celebration of boatwoman extraordinaire Alex Bennett
A television interview (probably 1987) with Margaret Cornish, a wartime boatwoman
A livestream of Kate’s play Isobel’s War
Idle Women and Judies by Heather Wastie is an audio piece based on the wartime memories of three women: Emma Smith, Nancy Ridgway and Daphne French.
The next three are podcasts where you will here some of the women who helped save the canals in the Black Country and Birmingham
NOTE: despite having a direct link, Soundcloud will (probably) ask you to create an account. If you don’t want to simply close the dialogue box – there’s a large X in the top right corner (away from the text), and all should be well.
The women who were there at the start of the Inland Waterways Association
Stories from the Dudley tunnel
Birmingham: the state of the canals in the 1970s
PEACEFUL ENGLISH WATERWAYS: A song that Heather Wastie began when she was 13, and extended later during the I Dig Canals project. This is the interim version – there were eventually three verses! Here she is sharing it at Debdale Lock on the Staffs & Worcs Canal.
And, finally, here is Kate signing off with a contribution from a passing boatwoman who had taken part over the weekend, from a different part of the Thames.
