Our annual exhibition was held in the Mission Hall from 13th to 20th June. This year's display was focussed on a remarkable set of farming diaries that were kept by the Storie family of Cocklawfoot from 1911 to 1947 - see above. Entries are often brief, but cumulatively they build up an extremely vivid picture of a way of life that has now sadly diminished, if not entirely disappeared.
We are grateful to Karin Maroney for allowing us to borrow the diaries, most of which have now been transcribed and archived. Also many thanks to Dorothy Sharpe for letting us use photograhs and information from her exhibition on life in the College, Bowmont and Kale valleys and to Margaret Rustad for transcribing the diaries and invaluable help. The exhibition allowed us to make use of our spruce new meeting place. The exhibition was very popular, with over 250 people dropping in. We made over £214.00 in donations
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