CV Walden Archive (Covid-19 epidemic)
During 2020 and 2021 we sought local people’s experiences of the Covid -19 epidemic.
Details of the project can be found here – CV Walden Archive
Here’s a cross section of the material which has been submitted:
Diaries & Contemplative writing…
1st Saffron Walden Girls Brigade
Anabelle Atter – Covid Christmas in her own words
Lockdown Diary by Ann Holloway – Summer 2020 – May 2021
Caring through Corona by Emily Ranoble
Covid-19 Coronovirus by Gillian Mulley
Suitcase by Ian Miller Castle Street Saffron Walden May 1st 2020
Lucy age 11 Clavering school
Artist Victoria Parker Jervis made a visual record of her lockdown days….
Poems…..
WhatsApp in the time of Coronavirus by the Inner Wheel
Sestina-Stay inside by Sebastian Page
Covid Waves by Teresa Cobalchini
Living through the Coronavirus Pandemic by B. Davidson
The Corona Ghost Of Platform Nine by Hester Wolter
Covid-19 April 2020 by Jean Little
Under the Crack Screen of my Phone by Jess Dickinson
Life In Lockdown by Karina Bailey-Watson
Photographs, Artwork & more….
5th Saffron Walden Incas Cub Scouts:
Granta Chorale – ‘Singing in a Choir’ Virtual Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DbqPeLRRx4
Brian Harvey, Littlebury : Sky West band): 20/20 Vision, is the title track of an EP by Harvey’s band, Sky West, it was written during the 1st lockdown and recorded in the summer of 2020 when some of the restrictions were lifted – we were socially distanced in a barn! It can be found on Bandcamp, Spotify and YouTube under Sky West 20/20 Vision. An accompanying video is also available on YouTube at the following link (copyright Sky West) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CILYnXxHwE
Sue Knowles teaching her Year 3 class online remotely during lockdown. Here they are working on the book – Varjak Paw by SF Said. There was a feeling of teachers having to reinvent themselves throughout the terms, combining online learning for the majority and class learning for the children of essential workers and limits on class sizes and the creation of class/year ‘bubbles’
Sandra Beale ran online STEM education sessions which were very much welcomed as the majority of families were home schooling.
April 2020, Pascale J. Fowell reimagined the tune of “My Favourite Things” by Rodgers and Hammerstein to create her songs in praise of her local village bakery Days of Ashwell in Great Chesterford during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Thanking essential workers. copyright Lynne Blount
Spaces locked down to discourage people from congregating in public places. copyright Lynne Blount
Thanking the NHS. copyright Lynne Blount
Thanking the NHS. copyright Lynne Blount
Thanking the NHS. The rainbow symbol was widely used. copyright Lynne Blount
Official NHS guidance. copyright Lynne Blount
Spaces locked down to discourage people from congregating in public places. Children’s playgrounds were later re-opened before many other spaces. copyright Lynne Blount
Thanking the NHS. copyright Lynne Blount
Social distanced queuing by Les Dobson
Deserted streets in Saffron Walden. Copyright Dominic Davey (SWCC)
Manchester Field Hospital 2020 (former station) by Elaine Atchison (artist based in Elsenham, Nr. Bishop’s Stortford)
