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August Update

As you will have seen from previous blogs, newsletters and social media posts we applied to the National Lottery Heritage fund for a grant to put towards the costs of the Heritage project. I am delighted to inform you that the grant application for £4400 was successful and we have now started the process of getting the funds released. This money will join the other grants that we have received from two Bluntisham groups – The Saywell’s School Charity donated £250 and the Village 100 Club an additional £300. Our thanks go to both of these organisations as their donations enabled the project to get off the ground.

These grants will be used to improve the look and functionality of the website, a more sophisticated cataloging system, IT equipment, DTP software and publications. It means that we can really crack on with developing our website and the project as a whole.

We have added more photos, with lots more to be added, and we have also added some information on the Path Finder March that passes through the village each year. Which is very informative and well worth a read.

We continue to receive contributions and we have offers of lots more. Thank you again to everyone for embracing the project. One of our aims is to increase the feeling of community by linking the past with the present. This week we have been able to introduce the owners of a house on the High Street to the man that was born in their house in 1939. He’s going round for a tour of how it looks now and is looking forward to sharing his memories of how it was when he was young with them – which is what its all about I guess.

Thank you again

Philippa 14.08.2019

Update 30th July 2019

Firstly a thank you to the folks that attended our first open morning and thank you to everyone for their contributions. The project is starting to take shape and the website is steadily filling up with more and more photographs and documents to explore.
We also now have videos of some local events loaded on the site and thanks to those who allowed us to share, please have a look to see if you feature in any of them.
The website is a work in progress and over the coming months we will be making changes to its structure and navigation, we will keep you posted on how we get on and when we introduce changes to it.
One element of the website that I would like to draw your attention to is the “Forum”. This allows you to log in to the site and to post comments on published articles, open discussion topics within the forum and even submit your own contributions online. Like most websites we will moderate all comments and contributions prior to publication, nothing sinister but we just want to avoid adverts and the odd rogue approach from some chap in Siberia.
The team continue to work on projects and are busy researching, once we have more details in the correct format we will publish them on the website. Some of the things that we are looking in to are – The Old School, Bluntisham and the RAF, Fen Skating, the many Pubs of Bluntisham, the Home Guard, military connections and Bluntisham and the national newspaper archives.
We are looking for anyone who can help with the history of the sports clubs in the village, so if you have any details please get in touch. There is a document on the website that says the Bluntisham Cricket club dates back to 1882!
If you want to join the team and would like to look in to a specific area then please contact us at info@bhp-pc.org.uk and let us know. We will be planning more open mornings and we will let you know when these are organised.
Thank you again to everyone that attended.
Philippa

New photographs added

We have been able to add new pictures thanks to Janet Mehew, Tracey Davidson , Ivan Gibbs and others, you can find them under the Photographs menu option and Ivan’s are currently in the Document library.

Open Morning – 27th July

Our first open morning is planned for Saturday July 27^th 2019 at the Village Hall at 10.30. We are looking to give you a brief overview of where we are and then to open the conversation up to everyone to talk about their memories of Bluntisham and to get involved, and to allow us to share their memories, photo’s, written memoirs on the website.

It’s still early days but we are getting contributions from more and more people, this website will develop on content and we now have a forum page on the website, where we welcome you to send us a message or post your own memories. Please feel free to join us on the 27^th, if you would like any more details or to talk to us about contributing please get in touch.

Welcome

Welcome to the Bluntisham Heritage project website, thank you for showing an interest and visiting our site.

We are often asked what are looking to include and how we will share our village’s heritage; our aim is pretty straightforward. We live in a village that people find hard to leave once they have either been born here or moved here. In some cases if people have moved away they seem to retain strong emotional ties to the village.

We realized that lots of people have lots of information on the village, be that a relative that lived in your house in 1881 or a memory of the old school fete or playgroup and that there was nowhere to share these memories. We wanted to provide a forum where this information could be shared and made available to everyone digitally wherever they were. We decided to link the past to present in a digital archive that can be maintained and added to going forward. In thirty years’ time the year Six pupils who are leaving the school will be 40 and they are creating the history of Bluntisham today, when Lily Norman becomes Prime Minister in 2055 we will rightly claim her as one of our own.

We understand that not everyone is online, and we want to include as many people as we can and that is why we are having a series of open mornings to run through where we are to date and what information people are contributing. Everyone is welcome and the same goes to anything that they want to share – be that the cricket team line up in 1995, the closure of the railway in the 1960’s or the playgroup in 1980, its all relevant and we want to gather and share as much and as varied information as we can.

Hello

Welcome to the BHP website, this is a work in progress and will be changing from time to time over the coming months as we gather more items to add to the website.

If you have any questions, suggestions or to let us know if you have anything to contribute please use the Contact form.