The six week W.E.A. course at Barrow on Humber is now finished, the feed-back (formal and informal) from the class members was positive and by the last session Sylvia had printed-out and brought together in a folder all the sections researched and written by the class members. Over the next few months the text has to be edited by myself, illustrations incorporated and the necessary preparations made prior to publication. Furthermore John Thompson (a class member) has prepared a presentation about the ‘village pageants’ of the 1960s which he plans to put on a dvd. The plan is for copies of this and the book to be on sale from an autumn book-launch. Well done to the members of Barrow W.E.A.
My recent talk to Barton and District History Group on the ‘Adamant Cement Works’ seemed to be well received by a large audience in the ambulance base building, Fleetgate, Barton. I have subsequently been asked to put it on the website as a pdf. However, at the moment most of my power-point presentations are not in article form so I have to decide what to do about that.