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Dig up your Roots Join Jenny Seddon and Liz Machin as they show you how to get started on finding out about your ancestors. Where did they live? What jobs did they do? Will you find a royal ancestor – or worse? Saturday 8 September 2007 A Village Heritage An exhibition of "work in progress" by the Pickworth
Local History Group. Village Life from Domesday onwards.
Medieval wall paintings, memories of Charles Sharpe VC and tales
of our school. Refreshments available. Pickworth: Change and Continuity In The Rural CommunityPickworth is a small village in South Lincolnshire, experiencing, like many others, rapid and profound change. Set in agricultural surroundings, few of its people now have any direct connection with farming, and its local services (school, post office, shop) have long disappeared. How is the experience of community to be sustained and developed in the face of such changes? The Pickworth project is addressing this question by exploring the heritage of the village and the surrounding area - its landscape, people and built environment as they have evolved over the centuries to the present day. Local people are involved in events designed to encourage interest in the past and concern for the future of the village. The project started with a ‘launch event’ which brought in people from a wide area who had connections with Pickworth. It is continuing through studies of village life at various times, through oral history, documentary records, farming, landscape and wildlife. Events and activities such as field walking, workshops and a village walk are planned, and local residents are encouraged to contribute in aspects that particularly interest them. A ‘Book of Pickworth’ and an accompanying DVD will be produced, and a plan of the graves in the churchyard together with details of the graves will be made available to the church. Records and documents relating to this work will be conserved after the closure of the project Another News storyPickworth is a small village in South Lincolnshire, experiencing,
like many others, rapid and profound change. Set in agricultural
surroundings, few of its people now have any direct connection
with farming, and its local services (school, post office, shop)
have long disappeared. Another News storyPickworth is a small village in South Lincolnshire, experiencing, like many others, rapid and profound change. Set in agricultural surroundings, few of its people now have any direct connection with farming, and its local services (school, post office, shop) have long disappeared. |
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EVENT IS POSTPONED UNTIL NOVEMBER