The project is a partnership between Shantytown, the Department of Conservation and the West Coast ICT Uptake project. It involves digitizing some of the oral history tapes of the Department of Conservation, recorded in the 1970s and 1980s, and combining these with images of objects from Shantytown’s collection and placing the resulting stories on the new Shantytown website and Kete West Coast. We propose digital stories linking with the sawmill, gold mining, rail, foundry, and village attractions. The project will also be presented at a Heritage West Coast Forum as a model for other heritage groups in the region to replicate