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Interior of story box, showing a small selection of the images, including two men standing at the front of a train with Lowestoft Town Supporters Club Orient Express written on the front Blog posts

More Football Stories from Suffolk

Members of sporting groups in Lowestoft and Ipswich get to see the Footballing Stories Box, and listen to themselves as they recount favourite memories.

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What we do do …

Along with Dean Parkin, we visit Manor Farm Care Home in Kessingland, to learn about the residents’ favourite sports and pastimes and create a poem celebrating the things they choose to do – and one or two that they don’t.

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A wooden panel with a black knob right, the words Extra Time centre with goal post over and an old-fashioned cut-out of letter M, left. Under logos of Suffolk Archives and Chronicle Digital Storytelling and Suffolk Artlink Blog posts

Footballing Stories from Suffolk

Members of the Ipswich Sporting Memories group get to experience the Extra Time Footballing Stories box – and are amazed and delighted by it.

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Leather bound sales books dating back to 1911 Blog posts

The Long Shop and The Hold

Volunteers from the Long Shop Museum in Leiston visit The Hold in Ipswich to explore the Garrett archives at first hand

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A group of women, laughing as the adopt a fun pose in front of The Long Shop, Leiston Blog posts

Curious Energy

Participants of Curious Minds, Leiston, celebrated their creative journey with a final exhibition at The Long Shop and Leiston Library.

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two artists creating a large sculpture Blog posts

Brave Art Practice Sharing

“People’s creative ability is amazing – it’s like magical alchemy.”

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A framed certificate to the Halesworth and District Museum that reads We, the undersigned pupils of the Edgar Sewter Primary School award this certificate to Halesworth and District Museum in appreciation of the Extra Time we spent together finding out about our town - followed by several signatures. Also in the picture are two hand-crafted trophies and two Extra Time publications Blog posts

Extra Time Trophies All Round

The whole of Year 5 at the Edgar Sewter Primary School get to see what their pals have been doing on Extra Time and then the Museum staff get a big surprise during a school visit in the afternoon

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The landscape of Sutton Hoo framed by a handheld rectangular cardboard frame. Blog posts

Framing the Landscape

Artist Jac Campbell presented participants with creative ways to record and explore the landscape of Sutton Hoo including sound recording and cyanotypes.

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