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Hollingworth Histories - The Jaggermen Animated by Brad Gee, Christina Bradbury, Jake Fairbrother, Alistair Bland, Aimee Bennett, Georgia Taylor, Connor Sherwood, Rhiannon Barber, Melissa Lomax, Tony Taylor, Laura Howarth, Brandon Loveday Musical consultants Eliza P, Gary Langley Directed by Alistair Bland Thanks to Pat Irwin, Buzz Hawkins, Paddy Molloy, William Westhead Produced at Longdendale Community Language College 2008

The third animation, The Jaggermen, was the last and most experimental of the three animations made by Hollingworth Histories after-school animation club. The animation is based on the story of the Salt Trail through the Longdendale valley. Salt was brought from Nantwich and Northwich to Yorkshire and beyond by drovers with laden packhorses on narrow tracks over the moors. Part of this trail goes through our school grounds. To research the animation, club members went to Nantwich Salt Museum and were given a tour of the museum by a local historian who explained the origins and importance of the industry and the salt routes that distributed its valuable product. Some young people also researched sand animation techniques on the internet. Singer-songwriter Eliza P, sound engineer Gary Langley and historian William Westhead worked with club members, using their research material to write a song. Club members decided to use place names from along the Salt Trail to make up the repeating chorus and images of the journey across the moors and its hardships. The young people were also involved in playing the music, singing and chanting during the recording. Young people then experimented with sand, salt and rock salt on a light box to produce the stop-frame animation under the guidance of professional animator, Paddy Molloy.

"I have found Hollingworth Histories animation club lots of fun and I have learned how to animate characters and make backgrounds and I have made a lot of friends" - Brad

"I have loved making animations. I have learned a lot and made a lot of new friends" - Christina

"When we have been animating we have learnt lots about the Salt Trail, like people being paid in salt and all about Jacob's Ladder and we have learnt how to do a sand/salt animation. We have made new friends and met up with old ones" - Brandon

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