Altered Images is a three-year heritage project (February 2022 – January 2025) managed by RCT’s Library Service and funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Altered Images aims to challenge ideas surrounding where we come from, by exploring the tangible and intangible cultural heritage that reveals how our communities developed over time.

The project has engaged with people of all ages and abilities on an array of creative and innovative heritage-themed projects. With a focus on memorials and statues, and stories, myths and legends, the project has worked with volunteers and participants to research and interpret our area’s heritage and history.

Project volunteers have taken hundreds of photographs to produce an up-to-date visual record of RCT’s statues, memorials, and monuments, which will be used as a way of preserving our local heritage for future generations. The images have been saved to the Photographic Archive.

Volunteers have also produced an oral history archive, by conducting interviews with local people and recording the diverse stories and reminiscences of members of our communities, which capture the social history of RCT. You can access both the Photographic Archive and Oral History Archive via the ‘Collections’ menu.

Please explore the Altered Images pages, where you’ll find a selection of films and exhibitions created by local people, which celebrate and showcase our varied and distinct local heritage.

For more information on the Altered Images project, please contact:

Hannah Buckmaster

Heritage Project Co-ordinator

07887 450725

hannah.buckmaster@rctcbc.gov.uk