The Memory Network brings together four distinct websites, each created to help people capture, preserve, explore and share the memories that shape our lives.
Every life contains something worth preserving.
From ordinary days to defining moments, the Network gives real experiences a place to be recorded, remembered and shared.
Different ways to remember, built around real lives.
Whether memories are private, shared with family or added to public history, each project has been designed around the people using it.
Memories should outlive the moment.
Photographs, voices, stories and experiences can remain accessible for families, communities and future generations.
The Memory Network brings together four distinctive websites, each with its own role, but all sharing one goal — helping people preserve, understand and share the memories that matter.
Supporting memory, connection and familiarity through dementia.
DearMemory creates a private Memory Room for someone living with dementia, bringing together familiar photographs, family stories, voices, music and the important people in their life — all in one personal place that family and trusted carers can contribute to.
Explore DearMemory →
Turn a lifetime of memories into collections worth keeping.
Create personal Memory Boxes for childhood, family, holidays, hobbies, people, places or any chapter of life. Instead of photographs and stories being scattered across computers, phones and folders, MyMemoryBoxes gives them a meaningful place to stay together and grow over time.
Explore MyMemoryBoxes →
One memory can lead to another.
MemoryTag uses tags and connections to link memories through people, places, occasions and shared experiences. Follow those connections to discover related stories and see how individual moments form a much bigger picture of a life.
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Because ordinary lives are history too.
Ordinary Lives gives everyday people a place to record the memories that rarely make it into history books — family life, work, friendships, neighbourhoods, childhood, places and changing times — building a public social history from the people who actually lived it.
Explore Ordinary Lives →“I want to create places where the memories that matter to people don’t simply disappear.”
The Memory Network began as a personal project — something I started building in my spare time because I believe memories matter.
For the last few months, I’ve spent most evenings designing and developing these four projects, each with a slightly different purpose but all built around the same idea: helping people hold on to the stories, photographs, voices and experiences that make up a life.
I want these projects to help families feel closer, give people meaningful ways to preserve the memories that might otherwise be forgotten, and make it easier for ordinary people to share the stories that deserve to survive.
DearMemory supports families affected by dementia. MyMemoryBoxes gives personal memories somewhere meaningful to live. MemoryTag helps people discover the connections between memories. Ordinary Lives gives everyday people a place in our shared social history.
This isn’t a commercial agency project or something created by a large team. It has grown from a genuine passion for preserving memories and bringing people closer together.
And it is only the beginning.
History isn’t only made by famous people or major events. It is also found in family photographs, ordinary conversations, familiar streets, childhood stories and the experiences we pass from one generation to another.
The Memory Network exists to give those memories somewhere to live.