In today's lesson we created posters to ask the people of Croydon to come and be interviewed at our shop on Friday 28th February or give their stories to us via email, phone or twitter.
twitter:
BRITSchoolCAP we've just named our site specific show
email: ebaggott@brit.croydon.sch.uk
phone: 0208 665 5242
poster:
28th February
Unfortunately we were unable to interview people in Croydon today although I did have a lovely conversation with a lady called Jean who is in her late 70's about her experience of growing up in Croydon whilst we waited, however whilst it was really nice to hear Jean's story and find out her memories of Croydon, it was a shame that we wasted nearly 2 hours just sat outside the shop, when we could have spent that time going around Croydon and seeing if people would be willing to answer our questions. However I am sure we will get an opportunity to do this before we start the devising of our performances as by asking theses questions we will be able to hear real experiences of Croydon as a home as well as being a shopping centre.
Jean's story
I remember Croydon in the late 40's mostly when I was about 6 or 7 is my first memory of Croydon, with the cars driving right through the town centre not like now where people have to walk everywhere! Croydon's always been my home, my first job was selling toys in a little shop down where the tram goes and then when the Whitgift Centre opened I got a job selling posh frocks and glamorous hats for weddings and christenings, my mother was not very impressed with this though, she didn't like the Whitgift centre said it would soon close down. I come to the Whitgift now just to do the odd bit of shopping its nice that you can buy everything in one place, I usually end up popping into Sainsbury's or Marks and Spenser's just to get some bits once I've brought my wool and everything else.
18th March
today we went to Croydon and interviewed/asked questions to people we could catch in the Whitgift Centre, although I did go in and "pounce" on many elderly people whilst they had a little sit down and a break from shopping (which I feel guilty about) many of them did seem quite happy to answer our questions, below are our findings. Out of all of the people we asked to answer our questions only one lady was happy to be voice recorded which was a shame for us as it means that we may lose some of the detail of the conversation. from our findings we discovered that people had either lived in Croydon since birth or had only recently (in the last 5 years) moved to the area because of the cheaper cost of living and housing and that there is a real divide between those who call this their home because of heritage and those who call this their home for now.
voice recording from interview number 3
Replies to the questions:
'there's no community anymore...people especially different generations don't interact'
'we were brought up that you had to give the elderly your seat and young people don't have such courtesy anymore'
'we need to bring the community together again we need something that brings everything together'
'see very little at the Fairfield and its supposed to be a pillar of our community'
'we use to mend and wear.. making sheets out of white flour bags.. how many kids can actually cook a meal now?'
'its got a lot busier'
'shops have changed they've become much more commercial.. no personality these days'
'its good that its busy but that brings us trouble'
'so commercialised, there's no greenery'
'its packed now especially because of the immigration'
'I'd really like to see different arts'
'we use to have a drumming centre'
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