Sawston Cinema Archive Project

We’ve got our new website and you’re looking at it…
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Today we worked on website designs with Bill Thompson. We looked at existing websites to see which features we would like on our website. We then drew up some designs and presented these to the group.
Some of the suggestions for the ‘about this site’ were:
We are a group of students from Sawston Village College.  We [...]

An important part of the archive project is finding out what people who used the cinema remember about it, so we have been talking to people who live in Sawston.
During our interview with Pearl we learnt that the cinema was always full and that it was very popular because there wasn’t much else to do [...]

Older members of the community visited us today and they spoke about their memories of the old cinema. It was really interesting to hear their stories, and it has given us lots of ideas for the sort of things we might put into our film.