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September 2004
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September 2004
Location: Devon
Since the launch of the project in February we have had the IT part of the community Kiosk up and running in the Winkleigh Community Centre, most Tuesday evenings and at the Mini market on Wednesday mornings. This has worked well, the Tuesday evening sessions find us adding data and images to House Scouts, doing some IT and other training, generally catching up with what the volunteers are doing and exchanging ideas etc. At the Mini market we get a great deal of interest from the folks attending, photographs and documents have been brought in for scanning and our collection is rapidly growing. Thanks to Pat Tong, we now have a wonderful collection of postcards and photographs of Winkleigh, some of which were taken by Lawrence Molland just after the turn of the last century with the same shots re-taken in the 1980’s by his grand daughter, Sheila Molland.
The Community Kiosk display case was used during Winkleigh Fair week, House Scouts were invited to hold an exhibition of past Winkleigh Fairs and also to display their old cups and programmes, this we duly did and it was great fun. We are really grateful to the folks that let us have their photographs to use, without them it would have been a poor exhibition indeed! These photographs will be made into a Winkleigh Fair display on our computer, this we plan to start in the autumn and then can be added to at any time. So if you come across any Fair photos and would like to add them to the archive, bring them along to the Community Centre on a Tuesday evening or to the Mini Market, where we can scan them onto the computer there and then.
This autumn we are planning to really get going on some survey work, we have 9 properties that we are investigating at the moment with more to start on. David Purnell is still beavering away in the Records Office coming to grips with old Winkleigh street names and where people lived, this will help anyone grappling with the census, do get in touch if you need help.
On October the 23rd we will be attending a History day in South Molton with an exhibition of our work, there will be talks and presentations by various local groups and other things of historic interest. If you would like to attend or want more details about the day do phone me.
The Community Kiosk with our computer is up and running in the Community Centre every Tuesday evening in the small room, from 8.00 pm till 10.00 pm and at the mini market every Wednesday morning. So do come along, whether you want to join our bunch of volunteers, or just have a look at what we are up to, everyone is most welcome. Please phone first for the first Tuesday of the month because it is live music night and all our volunteers might be over the road in the Village Hall!
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