At Pecket, people shared their writing with the group, learnt from each other and encouraged each other. Here Florence asks Pauline her ‘writing hand’ to read a poem and then Florence reads. ‘Who will write for me?’ on the difficulty of life when you have to depend on others to read your personal mail. Florence says “Sometimes we have live with people we do not like but we need them to read for us.”‘I am the valley who received them all.’ A poem about the flowing river in the valley in the countryside around Pecket . Finally ‘Lumb Bank Valley’ a poem of love for the nearby valley which houses ‘Lumb Bank’, a writers centre set up by Ted Hughes. For Florence this brings memories childhood in Ghana.
Florence Reads from Pecket Learning Community on Vimeo.
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This video was part of Pecket Learning Communitiy's digital archive, which is no longer available due to funding. The FWWCP Collection is working with members from Pecket to hopefully reestablish Pecket's wesbite, but until that time, we have been able to share some resources here. To learn more about Pecket Well College and Pecket Learning Community, read Telling It, written by Cilla Ross and shortened by Pauline Nugent, which tells the story of Pecket with an oral history from its members. The description for this video was originally written on the Pecket archive website. Pecket Well College was a member of the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers. Please note: Any video use should credit Pecket Learning Community (pecket.org)
Not all documents in the archive have been digitized. If the download is not available, please inquire about accessing the item, which is housed at the Trades Union Congress Library's Special Collections in London, England.
