Mansfield: Our Music, Our Memories – Help Us Tell the Story

This isn't simply a story about musicians or bands from Mansfield. We want to explore our relationship with music — what we listened to, where we went, who we went with, how we discovered music and how those experiences have changed over the decades.

Share your memories

We're looking for people of all ages to share their memories and experiences.

Perhaps you remember getting dressed up for a night out in the 1960s or 70s, discovering new music in the 80s, heading to clubs in the 90s, going out in the 00s, or enjoying live music and nights out in Mansfield today.

We'd love to hear about:

• Your favourite clubs, pubs, venues and dance halls

• Gigs, concerts and nights out

• The music you listened to and how you discovered it

• Record shops, jukeboxes, radio, tapes, CDs, downloads and streaming

• What you wore and how you got ready for a night out

• Who you went out with

• Favourite memories and stories

• How Mansfield's nightlife and the way we experience music have changed

• The songs that take you straight back to a particular time or place

We're particularly keen to hear from people across different generations. By bringing these stories together, we hope to show how the experience of music and going out in Mansfield has changed from the 1950s right through to today.

Do you have something we could display?

We're also looking for clothing, photographs and objects from different decades that could help bring these memories to life.

Perhaps you still have a Teddy Boy suit or a pair of winklepickers from the 1950s or 60s, white jeans and a checked shirt from the 1990s, the little black dress you wore on nights out in the early 2000s, or something from a more recent night out.

We are interested in anything that helps tell the story, including old gig and club tickets, photographs, records, cassettes, CDs and other objects connected to your experiences of music.

Items would be loaned to the museum for display and cared for throughout the exhibition.

Your memories matter

You don't need to have been a musician, worked in a club or been part of Mansfield's music industry. We're interested in the experiences of everyday people and the memories that show what music and nights out have meant to our communities.

Your contribution could be a story, a photograph, an object or an oral history recorded with the museum. Every contribution can help us build a richer picture of Mansfield and its changing relationship with music.

If you'd like to get involved, please contact Kirsty at ksanders@mansfield.gov.uk.

We'd love to hear from you and help bring Mansfield's musical memories to life.

Mansfield: Our Music, Our Memories