The project didn’t start off as a project but gradually developed into one. The stage at which this happened is difficult to define but may well have coincided with the first exhibition. Exhibitions were arranged to show everyone what had been discovered and it was the response to these that encouraged the researchers to produce a book. For the exhibitions, in addition to the material collected by the founder members of the group, several residents added their own material, so we had a display of ancient objects dating from Roman times and found locally, an early 20th Century AA roadsign from a local house that has been restored and the brass cockerel that used to be on top of the flagpole on the church tower.

When production of a book was costed out, it was quickly evident that financial backing would be needed. It was also obvious that we would need to produce our material in a format that the printer would need. Then we looked at what we were going to do with the vast amount of material we had collected and concluded that storage on an electronic medium would be the most efficient. We needed a computer. Funds would be needed for this, together with all associated software, supplies and peripherals.

To get funds a committee was formed and an application made to the Local Heritage Initiative in November 2003. After some honing of the application with the assistance of LHI, our grant was approved in April 2004.

We are focussed on producing a book but with the deadline of October 2005 now looming, we have to decide on what to include as there is far too much for one book! We have decided that everything will be stored on CD or DVD to be available to future generations, regardless of whether or not it makes it into the book. The key contributors are starting to translate their notes into prose and we shall shortly be deciding what pictures to include with the chapters.