In 2000 the project group of local residents has worked hard collecting and organising material from far and wide about the Poppletons, including items from Australia. The project has inspired older people to find out how computers can be used to capture images and memories of the villages. Using a multimedia system the group have catalogued the collection, at a base provided in Poppleton Library.
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The collection includes many
of the photographs taken in Poppleton by William Hayes in the early
1900s. His Edwardian photographic studio in York was moved and
re-erected at Beck Garth, Hutton le Hole, and is now one of the leading
exhibits at the Ryedale Folk Museum there. We are most grateful to the
Hayes Archive at the Museum for permission to reproduce these views.
The CD ROM also includes a
large amount of material which Laurie Inman has collected over
the past 40 years, and we are very grateful for his co-operation
and work on the project. We would also like to thank the Evening
Press for their support.
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