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Mike Asbury - my LHI story
from First News magazine
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Mike Asbury - my LHI story
Location: Wiltshire
Mike Asbury is a founding member and Chairman of the Pewsey Heritage Working Group, which has developed the Pewsey Living Archive. He is also honorary manager of Pewsey Heritage Centre, a small museum set up in the village by Pewsey Historical Society.
Pewsey is a village of about 3,500 people, almost exactly half way between Avebury and Amesbury, two classic world heritage sites. We do have a carved white horse on the hillside, but it’s relatively modern. Pewsey is a historic rather than prehistoric heritage site, very strongly associated with King Alfred.
There are four separate but interlinked strands in our LHI project; a Heritage Trail and booklet, a triple-folded A4 brochure for the Heritage Centre which is a sort of freebie handout that goes in tourist offices all over the place, a parish map and a computerised archive and database.
The Pewsey Heritage Working Group sprung out of the Pewsey Village Business Working Group, which was affiliated to the Parish Council. It was a sort of Chamber of Commerce by another name.
We already had the ideas about what we wanted to do before we found a source of funds that enabled us to do it. It was the then Chairman of our Heritage Working Group, Terry Kemp, who suggested applying to the LHI. He knew about the scheme through his work for British Waterways on the restoration of the Kennet and Avon and other canals.
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