Opening Doors to Hidden Heritage

Opening Doors to Hidden Heritage is an exciting new project funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and managed by The Space4.

The grant from HLF for the project opens the doors to historic buildings, structures and monuments in Peterborough and the surrounding area that are currently difficult to access and appreciate.

Opening doors to Hidden Heritage is a ten month project which will give virtual access to fifty of Peterborough’s most interesting and different historic sites. The project team will use photography, video and archive material to create a record of buildings and monuments including a civil war fort and a 17th Century Guild Hall, showing how they have changed over the years.

This archive work will be combined with recorded interviews of local people talking about their experiences, thoughts and memories of the sites, and a major exhibition subsequently held at the Space4 gallery to showcase the findings.

Many of the proposed sites are inaccessible to the public, so this scheme will open up Peterborough’s hidden heritage to many more people. It will enable everyone involved to learn about the history of buildings they may walk past every day but know nothing about, and how they were created and transformed to their current condition. Workshops will be held during the exhibition, encouraging schools and other visitors to explore how structures are built and best used.

 

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