On page 58 Hazel has applied her right to flag some inaccurate entries in the book ‘ A Pictorial History of Newton Longville’ which I researched, wrote and produced with Jimmy Bates between 1991 and 1995.

As with any project that relies on research, both from libraries and local residents, many of whom are no longer with us, it is natural that mistakes can be made.

The reason for publishing this blog is to keep the project alive and for people to share their memories and perhaps fill in gaps in the book itself.

I’m still proud of what we achieved in publishing the book, and it is good to know that it is still useful for people today, even though it is a piece of history itself. I also hope that Hazel feels she has made her point now and understands that I am happy to open an Errata on this site, to make sure that we have addressed any factual inaccuracies.

Unfortunately we can’t list all of Hazel’s items in the Errata, but we have chosen to include those that we believe add value to the context of the original publication, and for those we are grateful.

The letters were addressed to the parish council but they had been passed on to my mother to give to me.

My wife and I read every single one of them, and were thrilled to see that the book had been used in lessons at Newton Longville School. The letters from the children were fantastic, and it felt great to know that some fifteen years after publishing the book it is still generating interest today.

To all the children that wrote us letters, thank you very much, it made our day!

Regards
Roger

Very soon we will be releasing the book A Pictorial History of Newton Longville in its original form as an ebook which can be viewed and searched online.

There were many images that didn’t make it into the original book and we will be looking to create online galleries to share those with you.

In the meantime you can access a fairly complete collection of images on our Flickr gallery by clicking here