Harry Mottram, helped by the Axbridge Archaeological and Local History Society, of which he is a member, has been planning to record the voices and the memories of Axbridge people - an oral history of your town. Past experiences of Axbridge residents will be preserved in a sound and written archive, with pictorial and other illustrations to capture the essence of Axbridge over perhaps the last 80 or 90 years, up to the present day. The Mayor, Cllr. Baz Hamblin, has agreed to be official Patron of the Project.

Can you help?

1. Have you lived in Axbridge for a long time?

2. Do you know someone who has moved away, but who has memories of Axbridge worth recording?

3. Do you have any photos or picture postcards of Axbridge in the past that might be copied?

4. Would you like to help with the Project as:

• an Axbridge resident with years of memories

• an interviewer - using recording equipment supplied by ALOHA?

• a photographer of participants?

• an illustrator of the Project - graphics, drawing, painting?

• a typist - to write out electronically what has been recorded?

• a collector and/or collator of illustrations?

• an archivist to keep a check of all the material gathered?

• a general 'dogsbody' helper?

For further information or to participate, please contact:

Harry Mottram 732670 harry_mottram@hotmail.co.uk

Paul Passey 733373 paul@westmead31me17.freeserve.co.uk