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What have Middlesbrough Music Live and Loftus Library got in common? Four rubber blocks that’s what. Thanks to Martie at Music Live I took charge of 4 rubber blocks and shipped them down to Lofus calling on Mr Motivator, Barry Hunt to help offload. They’re now sitting under John the librarians desk so when he gets back off holiday he will be delighted. These blocks will form the basis of the Octorama soon to be built in the Mayor of Loftus’s Barn and if these work out we’ll need another 12. Interestingly, I found out after shipping these all the way from Middlesbrough that Skinningrove already have a supply!
We had an excellent visit to the Mining Museum in Skinningrove this week and we’d like to thank CIMM for their hospitality. Particularly we’d like to mention the three volunteers Alan, Liz and Ian who took us through various parts of the mine and told us of the working and the history. We had a pretty large group on this visit with Friends of Redcar Cemetery joining us. Actually we’ve learned that there is a fair bit of networking happening on these visits with East Cleveland people attending Middlesbrough ones and vice versa. This will be the first visit to become a “Digital Visit”, an experiment to map, display images and tell stories about community visits.
Heritage and Health walked hand in hand as a small team visited Marske to take “Digital Postcards” today. The walk began at Winkies Castle Folklore Museum and followed a route set up by Joan Russel. Joan had made up a book of the route complete with heritage images of several locations and the team set off to take current pictures of each site. 
Above, the team prepare for the photographic march. Joan gave a running commentary on what proved to be a most interesting afternoon. When we reached the beach we got talking about Marske Fishermans Choir and then the fishing industry in general which prompted Barry to tell us about the Tuna steaks he had marinading in Soy Sauce, Honey and Garlic (our mouths watered !) The walk finished by the grave of Captain Cooks father in the Marske cemetery. The finished images will end up in the Octorama tour which you can read about here. Tomorrow it’s Skinningrove.
 The free social network NING that drives the Digital Village Social Network is intending to go PREMIUM only. The announcement from the new CEO (whilst cutting the Ning workforce by 40%) seems quite stark, “pay for premium services or migrate off the network”. Of course no-one said Ning is going away and all you have to do is pay (not sure how much yet) to keep your network. However, I hear warning bells and so I’m experimenting with alternatives as are many people.
Meanwhile folks who are on Facebook may want to join the Facebook Page – Digital Communities which will also form part of a new social media strategy to replace NING.
There has been a change to Loftus Digital Village. The Image archive has grown very large and is not simply a Loftus Image archive. SO – it is now known as the East Cleveland Image Archive and it’s still at http://www.ecol.org.uk/loftus – John Hannah’s team at Loftus Library will continue to beaver away at the archive. There is now a new site for is Loftus Digital Village is http://www.ecol.org.uk/loftusdv – Pages pertinent to Loftus are there and Loftus specific images. The site is in its infancy.
I’ve started to implement another other strategy and you can see the idea here http://www.skinningrove.tv/image-archive/ NB the images are not actually on the Skinningrove site – merely displayed there
Others have been added
STAITHES http://www.staithes.org.uk/image-archive/
BROTTON added http://www.brotton.org.uk/image-archive/
CARLIN HOW – http://www.carlinhow.org.uk/old-carlin-how-photos/image-archive/
LOFTUS http://ecol.org.uk/loftusdv/image-archive/
MARGROVE PARK http://www.margrovepark.com/images/archive-images/
SKELTON http://ecol.org.uk/skelton/
SALTBURN http://saltburn.org.uk/image-archive/
This is a fabulous resource for East Cleveland
 A "White Lightening Trouper" (Click to enlarge) A new movie is going into production we have a tight production schedule so if you want to be involved please email stmedia@gmail.com asap to be added to the subscription list. We’re working towards a screening of February 11th 2010 so we need to get cracking. The outline scenario can be found here – we have a full set to build and costumes to design. We have the full backing of this from Cleveland Police and some of the force including Inspector Ian (Charlie) Bell who will take a leading role.
His Worshipfulness the Mayor of Redcar & Cleveland came to visit the Skinningrove Jetty in Second Life. He was amazed by what he saw and pledged his full support to seek the means to regenerate the Jetty in real life. He has invited a delegation to visit Council Chambers later in the month and show the film. He was so delighted with his own lookalike avatar crafted by Derek Mosey that he wanted to appear in a movie himself. Here are the results.
Find more videos like this on The Digital Village Social Network
 Parish Councillor, Barry Hunt now has a web page in the Digital Village Social Network. Visit it here www.barryhunt.org.uk Yes, he has his own domain name. And as if that weren’t enough, he and fellow Parish Councillor, Tommy Evans are featured on the local bus shelter, see below. (click image to enlarge)
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Drawn on April 6th at the Easter stall, RedcarCentral Library – many prizes.
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