For the Record - Olympics Legacy Project

 

Running alongside the four-year Olympics preparation is the Cultural Olympiad which also dates back to the Ancient Olympics. In response to this, Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service wants to work with local sports organisations and individuals to record and preserve their Olympic legacies for posterity.

 

Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service has now started its circulation of surveys to local sports clubs. This comes in two parts.

 

The first is a form for you to complete giving a brief history of your club, whether new or old and regardless of its size or level. It consists of a basic list of questions, with a chance for you to fill in other information if you wish, and perhaps send in a photograph. The Archive Service is aiming to accumulate as many of these histories as possible from clubs and other organisations or individuals across the County and City. This will ensure that we leave a permanent record of what was happening in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent in the years up to 2012, and your club can be represented in this record.

 

The second is a survey of any records held at your club. These could be fixture lists, competition records, certificates, newsletters or photographs, or perhaps more formal records of meetings and memberships. The Archive Service will be glad to give advice about the long-term preservation of these items, or to take in any formal club records for permanent safe-keeping and to make these available for people to use.

 

These surveys can be sent out by post or email. There is an ongoing programme to send out as many as possible, but if you wish to supply contact details, they can be sent out straightaway. Please contact liz.street@staffordshire.gov.uk for the County or chris.latimer@stoke.gov.uk for the City.

 

Please help us to record and preserve Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent's sporting history and heritage.

 

Liz Street
Archivist (Collections Management)
T: 01785 278371
E: liz.street@staffordshire.gov.uk