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Margaret McKenzie - my LHI story
Fovant History Photos
from First News magazine
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Margaret McKenzie - my LHI story
Location: Wiltshire
Margaret McKenzie came to England from New Zealand in 1987. Since 1989 she has lived in Fovant, where she is Secretary of the Fovant History Interest Group.
The reason why I live in England is that I love history, and the older the better. I had a very good history teacher, and I like to know what happened, why it happened and who made it happen. All the things that explain why things are the way they are now.
When I arrived in the village I asked people about its history and they sent me to this person and that person, and everyone would suggest someone else who had stories or pictures or other things.
It seemed to me that a lot of people knew bits and pieces but nobody had put it all together. So I put a notice in the parish magazine to ask whether people were interested in forming a group to explore and preserve the history of Fovant, and six or seven people replied, so we started the Fovant History Interest Group.
Everyone keeps their own precious things. We didn’t want to gather everything together in a little heap like squirrels and create our own museum. But we quickly realised that we needed to record what we were finding out. We started out by making a list of which people knew what, or had which postcards or photographs.
So when people asked about a particular topic, we could tell them who they needed to speak to.
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