This timeline describes how Our Oxhey evolved into a community archive website
2009
- The Herts Memories website was launched in 2009 to celebrate life in Hertfordshire and Oxhey was one of 8 communities chosen to have its own separate site
- 21st October – Local residents are invited to come along to a Tea Party at Oxhey Library for tea and cake and to bring and share their pictures and memories
2010
- 29th January – the volunteers meet for the first time to have some training on the website and to talk about what is involved in developing a community archive
- 6th March – Local history day with talk by local historian Neil Hamilton on the history of the golf course inspires people to give memories
- 23rd April – Training for the volunteers with Jack Latimer who developed the software for the project
- 7th May – The volunteer group meet to add memories to the website for the first time
- 11th June – Jack Latimer runs another training course for the volunteer editors
- 1st July – The volunteer group add more memories
- 16th August – The volunteer editors meet to discuss the structure of the website
- 10th September – Jack Latimer delivers the final editor training session and we set the look for the website
- 1st October – the group meet to tidy up the website in readiness for the launch
- 4th October – The website is soft launched
2011
- March – A volunteers story
- 18th March – A Tea Party is held to celebrate the public launch of Our Oxhey at the AGM of the Oxhey Community Library Steering Group.
- 16th June – First group session held at the Step Up project as part of an ASCEND course for adult ICT leaners
- 22nd June – A presentation about Our Oxhey is given at the Community Archives and Heritage Group Conference 2011 in London
- 16th July – Volunteers have a stall to promote Our Oxhey at the South Oxhey Summer Fun Day in the precinct
- 6th October – Volunteers encourage older people to Get Online with Our Oxhey at an ITea and biscuits party
2012
- January – Our Oxhey is nominated for a CAHG Community Archive Award
- 16th February – Literary Estate – Our Oxhey Group host a memories event at the Clitheroe Club
- 1&2 June – Literary Estate creative writing workshop followed by an event at the Palace Theatre in Watford, supported by Our Oxhey
- 16th June – stall at OVEG Summer Fayre
- 27th June – Our Oxhey wins an award for the Best Online Archive 2011 at the CAHG Conference 2012
- 30th June – stall and promotion at book launch for “Poor but Proud; a history of South Oxhey“
- 5th October – visit to Three Rivers Museum
- 2nd November – stall at Oxhey Family Learning Festival
2013
- January – Our Oxhey Group begin a project to add the Diary of Edith Morgan, Oxhey resident in 1900
- 25th March – Author Iris Jones-Simantel visits Oxhey Library to talk about her book “Far from the East End” which is partly set in South Oxhey
- June – Stall at the OVEG Fayre gets rather wet!
- 4th October – Our Oxhey Group visit Oxhey Chapel
- 7th November – Our Oxhey Group deliver flyers in Villiers Road to promote Edith Morgan’s diary and pay a visit to the Villiers Arms
2014
- 1st April – Our Oxhey supports the centenary of Carpenders Park Station and hosts an exhibition of the history of the station
- 7th June – Our stall at the OVEG Fayre gets some sun and 244 visitors
- July – We begin a project to add the Oxhey Village Environment Group (OVEG) history sheets to the website
- 9th October – We celebrate the 5th birthday of the new library building with a tea party, a book launch, a photo exhibition and a talk about the Krays.
2015
- February – World War I exhibition with selected panels about Oxhey taken from the “Bushey during the Great War” commemoration project
- 27th March – We celebrate Oxfam’s 40th anniversary in Oxhey
- 18th April – Visit to Bushey Museum
- June – Our annual visit to OVEG Fayre
- September – We take part in Three Rivers Museum Heritage Open Day
- 22nd October – Collecting memories at Oxhey Library health event
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