THE Okehampton Community Archive is a recently formed group of dedicated people, a mixture of locals and newcomers, who all share with one aim of identifying and preserving the living history of the town. We have four research groups looking at oral histories, photography and film, written records and building and architecture.
There have been considerable changes during the past 110 years and much of the history, still in the memories of the older generation, is being lost.
When you consider that in 1900 Queen Victoria was still on the throne, powered flight was three years in the future and two world wars yet to be fought, compared with how we live in today's technological revolution of the internet, mobile phones and world travel, the transition has been phenomenal.
The group is making an appeal to the townspeople to contact us and recount their knowledge, memories and experience of Okehampton. We'd like to know your personal histories. How living in Okehampton has changed in your eyes. What has changed? What was it like before?
We would welcome your stories, photographs, films, tape recordings or anything that you may think relevant.
We hope to produce a comprehensive digital archive, accessible to all, of Okehampton from 1900 to the present day.
Please contact the group by email: [email protected]">[email protected]
Or telephone 01837 695100 (leave a message on answer phone).
Paul Vachon
Upcott Valley
Okehampton