I work in a public services organisation in Scotland. I have three avid interests in life. Filming, History & Learning. The “Time Team” programme is therefore of immense interest to me. It is a personal ambition to be present, or assist, in its filming (even if all I do is make the tea). I have previously produced Broadcast Video mainly for the Fashion Industry, and hope later to develop into other areas, particularly documentaries.
My “full time” work brings me into contact with people from all walks of life including historians, custodians and others involved with historical works. My previous office was directly beside the remains of an Abbey dating back to the 11th Century, so “a trip down memory lane” was never far away.
My interest started when I was once asked, in a cobbled stoned street of Paisley, in Scotland if I had noticed anything unusual about the layout of the cobblestones, adjacent to a church. Some of the cobblestones had been laid in the shapes of a handkerchief, spectacles, necklet and ring. These items were the sole possession of a prisoner who helped build the church in 1715 but had later fallen to his death whilst working on the spire. The other prisoners laid the stones in the shapes of those items as a memorial. I had walked over that spot almost daily and never knew what I was walking on. That started me looking and asking.
History is with us all the time, just finding it is the key.