Kinson School & Village Memories
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Kinson School & Village Memories
 | This website is dedicated to
Martin Thorby-1940-2008.
(Pictured above left with Princess Anne & Ian Burton at the opening of the Pelhams extension in June 2005) |
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How it all began......
 | Our project started in Millennium year with a school photo sent in to the Daily Echo by Hazel.
At the suggestion of one of the "old girls" a very successful reunion for the school was organised with the help of Nicky as part of the Kinson Village Millennium celebrations. We displayed several photos of the village and some memorabilia relating to the school that had been loaned by an old teacher, Mr.Windell who attended the reunion with his wife who had been the PT teacher at Kinson School in the 1940's, she was Miss Webb in those days.
One of the " old girls" wrote to the papers saying how good it had been and how much everyone enjoyed the old pictures.This was where Hazel decided to decided to carry on collecting as many pictures as she could, at first to do with the school, then the village and latterly of local families that have been in the village for many generations.
These pictures were exhibited at some Local History events and then the Kinson Community Centre launched their monthly table top sale in aid of local clubs and groups. We asked if we could show the pictures and they were most enthusiastic, allowing us to use the whole stage. Our great problem at that time was having to borrow display boards, this meant that we could not arrange any events and be certain that we would be in a position to display any photographs if the owner of the boards needed them.
It was at this point that a friend suggested that we should apply for some funding and told us about the Help the Aged Citizens Action Millennium Awards funded by the Millennium Commission, so we applied and asked for money to buy two display boards and something for general running costs. This was where Valerie joined the team. When Help the Aged said they would supply a computer we asked " Could it be a laptop so that we could set up a slide show of scanned photos to take to home bound old folk who would not be able to visit the exhibition ?" We were lucky, they liked our idea and we obtained all the items that we needed.
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Citizens Action Millennium Awards
 | Martin & Hazel.
Bristol -28th September 2002 |
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National Lottery Funding
 | Out of 160,000 grants by the National Lottery, 1,000 projects were selected and invited to place an object in the 10th Birthday Maze at the Tate Modern. Of these, 250 groups or individuals entered an object and a story.We were one of them !
The photograph above shows the Maze as viewed from the roof of the Tate Modern.
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Our displays...
The following show some of the venues where we have displayed our photographs. We start of course with Pelhams which is our base.
This was the June Festival & Fete 7th June 2008. Ray Cozins also displayed his Kingsleigh & East Howe pictures & memorabilia.
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Corfe Hills School
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Verwood Historical Society
 | | Part of our display at Three Legged Cross on 19th January 2002. |
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Ferndown Library
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Kinson Library
 | | 26th October to 18th November 2002 |
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"School Bloomers"
 | Sturminster Newton Community Hall.
22nd March 2004
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West Howe Library
 | | 5th August to 2nd October 2003 |
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Kinson Common Community Open Day
 | | August 2007 |
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Don't forget....
if you have any old photographs that we can copy, please get in touch !
We would like to thank all those who have allowed us to copy their photo's for this project. |
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