Our reporter Kevin Quinn went along to the Away for the Messages exhibition, a reminiscence project themed around the retail and shopping heritage of Edinburgh, based in a retail unit at Ocean Terminal. The project started in April 2023 and ends it's 18 month run in October, 2024.
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00:00I went along to the Away for the Messages unit at Ocean Terminal as it
00:04nears the end of its 18-month run. Run by the Living Memory Association, Away for
00:10the Messages is a reminiscence project themed around retail and the shopping
00:14heritage of Edinburgh. Using its extensive picture archive hosted on
00:19Edinburgh Collected, they have created an exhibition in a dedicated space
00:23place at Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre which explores the range and extent of
00:27Edinburgh's former retail history. The project started in April last year and
00:33will finish in October this year. Welcome to Away for the Messages, this is a
00:37shops and retail heritage project and a reminiscence project and it's being
00:42delivered by the Living Memory Association that is based here at Ocean
00:47Terminal and we're really grateful to have a presence here at Ocean Terminal
00:51because of the big footfall but this is very much a local project, it's looking
00:56at the history of Edinburgh's shops and retail heritage so it's using images
01:03from our archive and folk can come in and talk about their memories of
01:08shopping at the St Cuthbert's Co-operative and all the other little
01:12shops and department stores that Edinburgh had and we're also collecting
01:17people's lived histories and making podcasts out of them which you can
01:22listen to and download on any device really. So come down, we're open seven
01:27days a week here at Ocean Terminal and see if you can recognize some of the
01:31pictures from your experience of shopping in Edinburgh. The Living Memory
01:36Association also runs the Wee Museum of Memory up the stairs at Ocean Terminal
01:40and from this winter the downstairs unit will be converted for an exhibition Our
01:45Working City, all about work in Edinburgh over the years.