Re: [Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

If I look at the articles for villages in my area, they are mostly stubs and will pretty well always be so, as a lot of the interesting stuff is local history which is not available in main stream publications. Other than listing the pubs, the schools the bus timetable, and whether there is a Londis store, what else can be said about them? Well take this place: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Brington the church in that place contains a whole book full of history. The Spenser monuments are some of the most important in the country. The pews have C14 - C16 carved poppyheads, the chancel contains the tombs of George Washington's grandfather, there is stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones ... This place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crick,_Northamptonshire has a Romanesque font sat upon three Atlas figures, and is one of the most important such works in the UK. A few miles away is another nationally important Romanesque font: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Haddon BTW that place also contains works by Pugin. And finally this place is chock full of works by Burne-Jones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guilsborough Whilst much of it is recorded in Pevsner he is often wrong, and often doesn't mention things. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l