On Your Doorstep - Burton-on-Trent

On Your Doorstep - Burton-on-Trent

Every object tells a story! Staffordshire Archives and Heritage Service looks after over 11 million objects, photographs and documents which together tell the stories of Staffordshire’s people and places.

The “On Your Doorstep” touring exhibition visited 5 libraries and showcased objects and documents from local communities in Burton, Cannock, Perton, Newcastle and Uttoxeter.

At each venue poet Mal Dewhirst talked to residents and library visitors. He has used their responses to the objects on display, their memories and comments about where they live, and local history and stories about each location to create a poem which tells a story about the place, its people and its history.

The exhibition and poems were supported with funding from Arts Council England. c. Mal Dewhirst MD Creative 2020