As I'd agreed with them, I rang each of them up over the weekend to ask if they could find some photos over the weekend, including those that some mentioned during the sessions. I spoke to Ralph again and arranged to meet him at his house in Lowedges 11am on Wednesday to look through his photos - of which he says he has many.
However, similar to our re-visit to the Lowedges group on Tuesday, almost all of those I spoke to had to back out due to various reasons, besides Mary and Kathleen from the Hawthorne Corner group. The added complication with contacting Mary is that she is currently living at her daughter's house and so we would not be able to film her at home.
I mentioned that we'd be at the group either on Thursday to speak to those we didn't get details for or on Saturday for the coffee morning, as she suggested that for those we want to interview we could just use side room to talk to them instead.
Again, this is a huge setback for the project and forces us to re-evaluate our approach to the film. We had planned to start filming with contributors during the week, but now even if we chose just to use audio recordings and photos we may not have enough content to make the film.
I will call an urgent meeting with the group for tomorrow to discuss the next steps in the project, as there is no longer time to meet more groups and generate more contacts through means of that. One option, although not ideal, could be to get archive photos from old Sheffield and show it to the members of the groups, generating a response and hopefully getting them to talk about their memories. Jamie is meeting his Gran's friend to see whether he might have any photos to share with us, which may also be an option.
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