Master's graduate helps design book about Frome's thriving past
Sonja Harris, a Master's
graduate from the
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
has helped create the book
Working Memories: Frome workers tell their stories.
Working as part of the community group Home in Frome, whose aim is to celebrate, record and share the unique character of Frome as it changes over time, Sonja was responsible for the book's design and layout.
Working Memories: Frome workers tell their storie s is a collection of local people talking about their working lives, homes, social lives and the past industries of Frome.
The book is the culmination of three years of conducting oral history interviews with 90 people about their memories of growing up and working in Frome, back then a thriving town whose wealth was generated by a surprising number of industrial and manufacturing companies.
Sonja graduated with distinction from the MSc Conservation of Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes course in 2010.
She now combines working part-time as a cataloguer in the University Library, with freelance oral history and landscape history research.
Working Memories: Frome workers tell their stories can be purchased at the price of £10 online at www.homeinfrome.org.uk or by email at s.k.v.harris@bath.ac.uk.
The book is also available in Frome from Hunting Raven Bookshop, Frome Museum, Badcox News, Frome Health Centre and other local outlets. In Bath it will be soon on sale at the Oldfield Park Bookshop in Moorland Road.
You can read more about the story behind the book at the
Home in Frome facebook page.
