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Calling all Kimpton "ex-pats"! Do you have any *photographs or memorabilia of Kimpton sitting in your loft? Would you be willing to share your memories of life in Kimpton and be interviewed by a member of our Group? If so, please contact the Kimpton History Group at We are setting up an archive for the village in the new Parish Room and plan to hold regular exhibitions. All items will be safely stored and copies made available for inspection. *Photographs will be copied so you will always have precious originals to keep. |
Parish Council Minute Book 1: 1894 - 1920
Contact: Juliet Morton
email: adewm@aol.com
The group was formed in October 2002 and holds regular meetings in the Memorial Hall.
So far we have held several exhibitions in Church House, during the 2003, 2004 and 2005 May Festivals - these were very well attended and produced a huge amount of interest.
We have managed to create a map showing all the shops and businesses which existed in the middle of last century, based on the memories of some of the villagers who lived here at the time. This will be updated/amended when we gradually obtain more information. Please contact Juliet if you would like to see our map or can give us any information. We would like to know where businesses were located, but are particularly interested in people's memories of the characters who owned them.
Many of us are working on our own projects - these will be on-going and any information, photographs, anecdotes etc relating to them would be very much appreciated. Please contact the web-site email if you have any such information. The projects are listed below:
* To provide a forum for discussion research and
sharing of information
* To provide a means whereby interest and awareness can be raised in the richness
and importance of our local heritage
* To provide a central means of storing preserving and caring for village historical
and contemporary material which can be accessible to the public
* To encourage the recording of visual and oral images and memories through
photography and taped interviews
* To take appropriate care of such material given to the Group whether within
the village or with the County Records Office
Annual Subscriptions (due January 1st)
Individual £10 (free to under 21's and those in full-tiime education)
Visitors welcome (charge at the door)
Some Current Local History Projects
Have you any information that might add to one of the projects below? Have you a project of your own we could include in the next newsletter?
Juliet Morton (Chairman) adewm@aol.com
Catherine Tees (Secretary) catherine.tees@dsl.pipex.com
Peter Hale (Treasurer) peter.hale@ukgateway.net
Bob Finch (Programme) K2Jent@aol.com
John Pollington (archiving) jpollington@tiscali.co.uk
Liz Bembridge
Penny Pepper pennypepper@waitrose.com
June Cardy jamescardy9@hotmail.com
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