A Request From The Library

We are pleased to report that the current programs of conservation, cataloging, enlargement of the Local History Section and the establishment of a major source of historical visual records are now all well underway. Not only has this resulted in increased attendances but also increased requests for advice and the provision of material for exhibitions, e.g. from Parish Councils, Churches, Castles and potential authors and publishers. Some of this provides income, all generates awareness of what our Society can offer, to say nothing of the increased number of donations of material.

All this positive activity is to be welcomed but please remember we are volunteers and our present accommodation is manifestly far too small to house our collections, let alone to serve as office and assembly point for material awaiting shelving, storage, transport to the County Archives etc.

Until the Society can get more space and so reward our efforts, we ask for your tolerance and appreciation of what is freely available rather than what is yet to be achieved. This is an opportunity for the undersigned to place on record the creative work of so many who, without fuss and mere time-consuming talk, have given so freely of their expertise and effort.

Peter Draper Hon. Librarian