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Share your Didcot Dairy Story!
Published on February 23, 2024 by Leah Hewerdine
Do you have a connection to Job’s Dairy in Didcot? Perhaps you have a story you’d like to share with us! Feel free to share yours here.
About
- A small group of volunteers dedicating their spare time to deliver this community project.
- Our project leader and co-organiser, Leah and Ruby, grew up in Didcot and have connections to the Job's branch in Didcot. Leah is an archaeologist and researcher, who focuses on improving accessibility, and engagement, with archaeology for all. Ruby is a manager for a museum in Oxford and has knowledge of best practice within collections, exhibitions, and engagement. Our project advisor, Zena, lives in Oxford and has successfully led several heritage projects with grant funding.
- We are partnering with other organisations and foundations who are contributing materials, time and space (at no cost) to help deliver this community project!
Project Partners:
- Roberts Foundation - They represent and support the former employees of Job's Dairy and are kindly providing us with full access to their archives. Loaned materials from the Roberts Foundation will be displayed as part of our museum exhibition!
- Express Dairy Tales - Didcot Dairy was also owned and operated by Dairy Express, who bought the plant in 1970. Express Dairy Tales hosts a collection of materials associated with Dairy Express, including the Didcot site. They are kindly partnering with us to provide materials for display in our exhibition!
- Sobell House Hospice - We are fundraising for Sobell House Hospice to support the charity through donations.
Our aims:
- To reunite, reconnect, and rejoice in the stories and heritage of the Didcot Job’s community.
- To improve local knowledge of the town’s history and encourage young people within the community to learn more about Didcot’s heritage.
- Contribute to a shared sense of place for the Didcot community.
- Provide a legacy resource for the community.
- A physical exhibition, 'The Didcot Dairy Story', located at the Cornerstone Arts Centre, in Didcot (August 2024). Our exhibition will feature memoirs from those connected to the Didcot Job’s branch, loaned objects and original photographs collected by former employees and their families and much more!
- An oral history of memories and stories from those who wish to share them! If you have a story to tell, please do get in touch by dropping us an email ([email protected]).
- A digital exhibition featuring all of the content from the physical exhibition, for everyone to enjoy!
- A miniature Ox statue, as part of the Oxfordshire Ox Trail, in support of Sobell House Hospice. This will accompany our exhibition and be located outside of the Cornerstone Arts Centre. This will be community decorated!
- A 'Book of Job' zine, in honour of the original employee magazine, that documents the project and offers a printed version of the exhibition content.
- An 'Ode to Job' statue to mark the original location of the Didcot Job's Dairy.
How will donations and grant funding be used?:
- Rental of the museum exhibition space for four weeks in August.
- Exhibition materials.
- Printing costs for 'Book of Job' zine.
- Ox Trail miniature Ox statue, in support of Sobell House Hospice!
- Marker for 'Ode to Job' on Western Avenue in Didcot.
- Any further funding will be donated to charitable causes that assist in helping elderly people who feel isolated, and other organisations that benefit the Didcot community.
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Leah Hewerdine
Ruby