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Sonic bus tour of Poole’s working landscape

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

This was the FINAL Our Working Lives event! A unique, one-off, bus tour of Poole’s working landscape was organised. Where passengers got the chance to travel through time on a 1959 Routemaster bus for a mystery tour to hear a soundtrack of Poole’s working landscape.

The tour took visitors to areas in Poole not usually visited by commercial tour packages. Snaking through Poole’s industrial estates, as well as other interesting features of Poole’s economic landscape. During the tour passengers could hear everyday people talk about their working life, about Poole history and how its infrastructure has developed. Mixed with life today and its possible economic future.

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Sonic bus tour No.2 feedback

Friday, July 29th, 2011

After the first bus tour out to Poole’s trading estates a few tweaks were made to the audio commentary. This made our second trip very popular indeed. The biggest issue seemed to have come from the top deck, where people had entered into the reminiscences of the tour and were busy talking to the friends on the bus about their memoirs. Some of the other passengers though took offence to this talk as a distracting noise and asked that they be quieter. For myself I’d introduced the audio guide as like overhearing someone talking on a bus, so the fact that others had joined in I see as a positive. It was like watching the John Krish documentaries at the cinema and hearing people chat “do you remember using a cooker like that” in the film. I see it as part of the communal experience of cinema, or in this instance the bus tour.

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Feedback from first sonic bus tour

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Feedback from first sonic bus tour was all very positive, except one couple who’d expected a guided tour like a commercial bus Co offer in places like Bath and London. Main negative, which I agree with, is not being able to time the sounds to the place. I’d hazard a guess to where the bus [...]

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Sonic Bus Tour

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

A unique, one-off, bus tour of Poole’s working landscape has been organised on 24 and 26 July as part of the Our Working Lives oral history project that has been exploring people’s working lives in the 40s and 50s. Travel through time on a 1959 Routemaster bus for a mystery tour to hear a soundtrack of Poole’s working landscape. The tour will take visitors to areas in Poole not usually visited by commercial tour packages. The tour will snake through Poole’s industrial estates, as well as other interesting features of Poole’s economic landscape.

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