The Buriton Heritage Bank has been chosen by the Hampshire Records Office as a prime example of an innovative local history project and is to be showcased as part an exciting new “Accessing Hampshire’s Heritage” project – a project aimed at encouraging more people to research their local history.
As part of the project some examples of our old press cuttings and photographs will be made available as an on-line guide, illustrating the sort of sources that can be used to investigate local history.
The project should be available online from February 2008 and we plan to illustrate a number of local themes such as farming, hop growing, the limeworks, the school, church and chapel, sports and leisure, wartime, transport etc.
We feel that this is a great honour for our Heritage Bank work and we would ask anyone who has provided items for the Heritage bank – and who has any objections to them being displayed on the internet – to contact us as soon as possible.
