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ARCHIVE: Compiling the Trawling Through Time at Selby Library is Joe Whitehead, chairman of Selby Family History Group Ken Sayner and Trawling Through Time archivist Ellen Tout. (L5300TS) Picture: Tony Saxton
A PROJECT to collect the memories of people who were involved in Selby’s shipbuilding past has been launched.
North Yorkshire County Council’s archive office held two sessions at Selby Library on Monday to try to make contact with former workers but also to find others who would be willing to help collate a huge archive of information from Cochrane’s shipbuilders that has been donated to the council.
Ellen Tout, from the archive office, said volunteers were needed to help list the collection, re-package the archive, conduct and transcribe interviews with former workers and digitise old photographs for the Trawling Through Time project, which has received a £48,800 Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
Ken Sayner, of Selby and District Family History Group, said: “We feel it’s something we might be able to do to our mutual benefit.”
He said the Cochrane’s archive offered the chance for local people to understand more of what their ancestors may have done at the firm. Ellen has been invited to an open meeting of the family history group on May 1 at Selby Town Hall.
Cochrane’s shipyard was open from 1898 to 1992. When it closed, it ended a 500-year tradition of shipbuilding in Selby.
The company built vessels including trawlers and coasters, oil rig supply vessels, coastal tankers and ferries.
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