What's New

www.woodborough-heritage.org.uk

Woodborough’s Heritage

Woodborough - an ancient Sherwood Forest village

Page revised 21st February 2012

What’s new and what’s coming up?

It took nine years to collect, collate and built up the old website. In the beginning there was no way of telling how much material would become available through our research and so the old website was built up piece meal. It became apparent that there was a need to restructure the site and the best way of doing that was to start again with a new design.

Much thought was given to the order and grouping of the many and diverse articles. Two retired librarians and an author looked at the brief and decided on the framework you now see. Unusually a prefix number has been added to the titles, this is to aid the reader to move on to the next title much as they would in a book, chapter to chapter.

The new website, the one you are now looking at, took five months to build. During this time the opportunity was taken to increase the number of illustrations, and also to resize and enhance most of the photographs. The new site is not yet complete, there is still ‘work in progress’ and the following list will give you an idea of what has been added and what is in the pipeline.

What was new in 2011?

Click the numbers 114-611 for links

114 - Churchyard survey of memorials

115 - Appendix to above

144 - List of shops and trades in the past century

187 - The school fence

190 - Millholme Models at the old school

197 - Woodborough Dovecote

224 - 19th Century Woodborough

237 - Countryside Treasures 1986

248 - Parish registers

509 - Woodborough Book Exchange

611 - Shirley Hoskins 1927-2010

What’s new in 2012?

Click the numbers for links

118a -Liber Albus supplement

129 - The History of the Institute

130 - The Institute extracts from 1945 minutes

143 - Shops & Trades from the censuses 1841-1901

150 - Kelly’s Directory 1855

166 - Kelly’s Directory 1895

169 - Kelly’s Directory 1899

What’s coming up soon:

Transfers from the old site (still to be made)

184 - Woods School photographs

190 - Interesting buildings in Woodborough (Intro)

191 - Interesting buildings in Woodborough

New to this site (in preparation)

225 - Community Study 1967

226 - Community Study 1970

227 - Community Study 1990

333 - Estate Sale 1894

334 - Estate Sale 1922

335 - Field Names from 1400

336 - History of farming by Peter Saunders

337 - History of farming by David Rose

501 - History of Brownies & Guides of Woodborough

Some facts, the site will have, when finished, over 210 articles equivalent in length to 700 A4 size pages.

Our photographic database has well over 4,500 images, and soon there will be several hours of digitalised archived 8mm ciné footage. Right three examples of the diverse photographic database.

A huge debt of gratitude is owed to the following: the two Davids, John, Margaret, Michael, Pam and Paul, also special thanks to Lawrence for his technical help and support. We also thank countless other people who have provided information and photographs.

Thanks also to The National Lottery ‘Awards for All’, Gedling CVS, The South Notts Rural Community Council, our local councillors John Boot and Mark Spencer and last but not least, the local businesses who support us.