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Winkleigh House Scouts - Janet Daynes (Newsletter No 8 2004)

Since the launch of the project in February we have had the IT part of the community Kiosk up and running in the Winkleigh Community Centre on most Tuesday evenings and at the Mini-market on Wednesday mornings. This has worked well. The Tuesday evening sessions find us adding data and images to House Scouts, doing some IT and other training, generally catching up with what the volunteers are doing and exchanging ideas etc. At the Mini-market we get a great deal of interest from the folks attending. People have brought in photographs and documents for scanning and our collection is rapidly growing. Thanks to Pat Tong, we now have a wonderful collection of postcards and photographs of Winkleigh, some of which were taken by Lawrence Molland just after the turn of the last century with the same shots re-taken in the 1980’s by his niece, Sheila Molland.

The Community Kiosk display case was used during Winkleigh Fair week. House Scouts were invited to hold an exhibition of past Winkleigh Fairs, and also to display their old cups and programmes. This we duly did and it was great fun.We are really grateful to the folks that let us have their photographs to use. Without them it would have been a poor exhibition indeed! These photographs will be made into a Winkleigh Fair display on our computer.We plan to start this in the autumn and then to add to it at any time.

This autumn we are planning to really get going on some survey work.We have 9 properties that we are investigating at the moment with more to start on. David Purnell is still beavering away in the Records Office coming to grips with old Winkleigh street names and where people lived, which will help anyone grappling with the census. It is most satisfying watching this project come together. As per usual it is the same few people doing all the work, so it may take just a little bit longer to complete, but hopefully it will be well worth it.