Event - Mansfield Memories Matinee

Mansfield Memories Matinee

Film performances

Mansfield Library Auditorium

Monday 9^TH July

Wednesday 11^th July

Friday 13^th July

All three matinee performances start at 1pm doors 12.30

Tickets £1.00 (prices of yesteryear) available from the library

Refreshments available before

Running Time: 70 mins no interval

As part of Mansfield’s Arts Week from the 7^th – 14^th July 2012, Mansfield Library will be hosting a special screening of rarely seen footage cared for at the Media Archive for Central England. The compilation of footage will include King George V’s visit to Mansfield Grammar

School in 1928, the Queen visiting the town in 1949 when she was still Princess Elizabeth, Cantamus Choir in 1984 and a variety of gems from ITV Central News’ predecessor, ATV Today.

Event - Hyson Green Exhibition (Nottingham)

“It felt like one great big communal house with loads of different people living in it.”

“I was washing up and I kind of had this feeling somebody was watching me and I turned around and this ghostly nun stood at the kitchen door. I was terrified, absolutely petrified.”

“As kids, we were known as Greenies because we live in Hyson Green and we were proud to be Greenies. And, as an adult, I was proud to be a Greeny as well.”

Those are just some of the things that people remember from living at Hyson Green Flats - one of Nottingham’s best-known urban landmarks during the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s.

Now, people can find out for themselves what life was like at the Flats, by visiting an exhibition about the building and the people who lived there, which opens on Saturday 19th November at the Museum of Nottingham Life at Brewhouse Yard.

The Flats were built in 1965 and were demolished just over three decades later in 1988. They stood where the Asda supermarket does now, in Hyson Green. The Flats were made up of 593 individual flats and maisonettes.

The exhibition will include a new film about the Flats, which includes ex-residents talking about their memories of living and growing up at the Flats plus the chance to see objects from the Flats such as a piece of concrete that was salvaged when the Flats were demolished in 1988 and personal items including an old street sign, rent book and record player.

The exhibition opens on Saturday and runs until 15th January 2012.