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Imagining Stafffordshire 2009-2010
Staffordshire Libraries recently invited local groups and individuals to explore their local areas.

Poetry and Literature
Poets, authors and writing groups

The Loynton Moss Project
Children from Woodseaves Primary School, near Eccleshall, produced a colourful comic book about Loynton Moss, the first nature reserve acquired by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust in 1969

Walton Hall School
Students at Walton Hall School explore their favourite places around the school in a project for Bridging the Gap

The Rising Brook Project
Celebrating fifty years of the Rising Brook estate

Images of Staffordshire - Paintings and photographs by local artists

The Watershed Project- exploring Stafford’s River Sow, its landscape and stories

Mysterious Staffordshire- the strange and mysterious in Staffordshire’s landscape, edited by Graham Phillips

The Shugborough Academy - Images, words and music inspired by Shugborough’s unique landscape, including work from the 2007 photographic competition in memory of Lord Lichfield

Sacred Staffordshire - holy places of all kinds, places which have had a special significance over the centuries

Natural Staffordshire - work inspired by the natural environment, particularly places cared for by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust

Stafford buildings - loved or hated architecture, big or small

Introduction

Any place where we live is more than just a geographical area. How we see it and how we feel about it is part of it too. Imagining Staffordshire is an exploration of the county through the eyes and imaginations of the people who live here or who have lived here in the past, through their words, images and sounds.

Staffordshire Green Man Imagining Staffordshire welcomes artists and writers of all kinds to contribute work inspired by the county, and publishes work produced by local projects.

We will also be featuring writers and artists of the past who were born, lived or worked in the county, and stories about places from folklore or urban myth.

The key to the website is a clickable map of the county, linking content of all kinds to the map if there are particular locations connected to the work or people. As the project develops you will be able to explore, via the map, the county as it lives in people’s experience and imagination.

There are also pages devoted to local projects, particular themes, and local artists and writers.

All the content in Imagining Staffordshire is the property of its originators.

To contribute to Imagining Staffordshire contact Andrew Baker on imagining@staffordshire.gov.uk