Attended by
28 people, as well as a good turnout from locals, representatives from
Cavenham, 
Tuddenham,
Worlington, Lakenheath and Kentford. Colin Dring gave a fascinating talk on
"The Enclosures and Tithe Maps" (Many modern roads date from this
time and Cambridge University Library has 603 Enclosure documents on Exning!). Village contact, Ronnie Moran, leafleted the village to
publicise the meeting and the result was two more members for the Santon
Downham team!
Sarah from Cavenham has kindly agreed to
provide a picture scanning service for the 22 villages. To use this resource
simply contact her via email cavenham@22villages.org
or phone 01638 750720 and arrange a suitable time to go round with your
pictures. Sarah work is flexible hours, so can be available both daytime or
evening. The resulting images can be saved to a disk or emailed directly to
Joe. If applicable, please remember to obtain permission from the owner of
the image to make a copy of it for publication
Messenger
Service A small piece of free software
(available
from Joe) that just sits at the bottom of your screen and tells you if others
from the 22villages community are currently online. If so, you can send them
an instant message or chat online with them. Traditionally it’s rather like
bumping into someone at the village shop!
Please remember to ask if the
person you call is busy as they will obviously be online for other reasons.
A Year in history..
While
the Eclipse is fresh in your mind...
In 90 years time, at the time of the next
solar eclipse, future generations may wonder how we celebrated the 1999
eclipse. Did we huddled, terrified behind the sofa? perhaps strange
sacrificial rituals involving household pets?
Lets dispel the myths - 22villages is looking
for 22 short personal accounts (say a couple of paragraphs sent as an email)
of how you and your family marked the eclipse and what it meant to you. These
accounts will be turned into a special page on the website (and maybe the
book?) Closing date 10th September.
How to get a photographic Ariel view of
Moulton village, that would need 25 computer screens to see whole and take 30
minutes to download, onto their web site? This was the challenge John Gunson
set our web designer. The solution was to slice it up into 25 sections and
then create a girded smaller version that allows you to zoom in to view the
chosen piece. See the result by connecting to www.22villages.org
move your mouse over the signpost and select Moulton.
Launch THIS Monday!
Looking forward to seeing you all at the
22villages Project Pack launch, this Monday (23rd August) 7.30pm and FHDC
offices, College Heath Road, Mildenhall
Regards
Joe@22villages.org
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* supported by The Heritage Lottery Fund
19/08/99