Once again the Heritage Event was a huge success as, during the course of the weekend some 600 visitors flocked through the doors. Cliff Housley, the Sherwood Foresters’ Historian, (who only intended staying for a few hours), ended up attending the whole event for both days. Cliff is building a database of Sherwood Foresters who either served or fell in the two world wars. The database, with photographs of the servicemen will be on display in the Sherwood Foresters Museum in Nottingham. So if you have information or photographs of any Sherwood Foresters, please let us know and we will be pleased to pass the information on to Cliff. We have already given Cliff copies of all of the information we have gathered about the Sherwood Foresters, named on the Jacksdale Memorial.

Heritage Weekend 2002 - Enjoying the Displays

During the event we were very pleased and privileged to be able to display a wonderful painting by local artist, Mr Ralph Taylor who has painted a ‘montage’ of the Jacksdale Memorial which also depicts cameos of servicemen and workers from the industries of yesteryear. The painting will be hung in the Jacksdale Community Centre, for all to admire.

Mr Ralph Taylor, local artist with the heritage painting he has so kindly donated to the community.

Thanks also to the many people who came forward with photographs which we copied on the day and especially to Mr & Mrs Hosie for their amazing collection of sixteen photographs showing the demolition of the viaducts in the 1970s.

Refreshments and a Raffle were organised by the Ladies Section of the Royal British Legion, who raised in excess of £200 for the Poppy Appeal.

Dr Dudley Fowkes addressing the audience &  BADJER Chairman Edward Holmes introduces.

Also many thanks to Dr Dudley Fowkes for his illuminating talk and also to Mel Siddons who arrived with his fascinating collection of memorabilia. The Friends of Cromford Canal also attended with display boards and are appealing for photographs of the Cromford Canal for their website and for a book to be written by Hugh Potter, (editor of Worldwide Waterways Magazine). If you have any good photos of the canal, either old or new, please let has have them to copy and pass on to the F.O.C.C.

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