The Takeaway Shop

Images courtesy of Lewisham Local History & Archive Centre

Event photographs by Katherine Leedale and Rowan Spray

number82, 82 Tanner’s Hill, Deptford SE8 4PN

20th – 27th January 2012
24th – afternoon in a primary school
10:30am – 6:30pm weekdays, 12 – 5pm Sat & Sun
Late night Friday 27th January as part of South London Art Map tour (until 8pm)

What do you know about where you’re living, where you wake up every morning? 

Archives are often unruly, dusty masses of paperwork and words locked away to keep them safe. What if you learn about the most interesting bits straight away? And more importantly, be able to TAKE them AWAY with you?

The Takeaway Shop was a place for people to drop in and learn book-binding and making and to collect real stories about the lives of the local residents, families and the history of the area. It was a place to meet and chat with strangers about common ground. 

People made individual handmade books and cut and pasted text, pictures, true stories, people and textures, to create THEIR own mini TAKE-AWAY archive.

I think it’s important to know the area you live in, it’s history, what came before it, and who lives here now. It’s the context in which you are positioning yourself, and your life.

Please get in touch if you’d like to talk about the future life of The Takeaway Shop.

This project has been kindly supported by Arts Council England and IdeasTap.

 

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