"Being party to a global event on our doorstep will last in memory forever"
Kevin Goodwin
What did the Olympic and Paralympic Games mean to you?
The 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games were a once in a lifetime event. To record the impact of the Games, from 2010-2012 museums, libraries and archives around the UK supported community groups to collect and create material related to the Games, past and present. This website showcases the results.
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Sporting activities in Thurrock
This is a collection of individual items relating to sporting activities in Thurrock. The items were collected by… -
Hopes for 2012 by disabled young people in North Yorkshire
Video, audio and photo record of young people's hopes for run-up to 2012, by young disabled people, responding to… -
Redbridge and the London 2012 Games
Redbridge Museum, based in Ilford, have made a series of five short films which explore the impact of the London 2012… -
Setting the Pace in Telford and Wrekin
Interviews with young sports people and sports champions in by Telford and Wrekin Libraries -
What it means to be a Loughborough University student volunteer for the 2012 London Olympics
"Volunteering will play a very important part of the London 2012 Olympic Games: London 2012 is relying on brilliant… -
Easton Olympians
A creative writing project in Easton, an inner city part of Bristol. Local people tell their own stories in response to…
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