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Features interviews with John Quinn, Michael Hues
and the book's author, Nora Dixon.
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Down Poulshot is written by Nora Dixon and published
by Poulshot Village Trust.
Poulshot Village Trust was set up in 1972, when the village
was designated a Conservation Area.
Nora Dixon spent twenty years talking to residents and studying
parish records before the publication of Down Poulshot.
There have been nine vicars in Poulshot since 1891.
Since 1893, fifteen landlords and landladies have worked behind
the bar at The Raven.
In 1901, Poulshot's population was 309; in 1999 it was 401.
Down Poulshot is available from Devizes Books, Ducks,
D'Arcy Books and the Devizes Information Centre.
Down Poulshot costs £10.00.
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Mill at Poulshot, demolished in the 1940s |
However,
the seed had been sown and during the last twenty years Nora spent
time hearing people's stories and studying parish records and slowly
building up a portrait of Poulshot's past.
With
support from the Millennium Festival Awards for All scheme
and design help from Nora's niece, Vanessa Parker, Down Poulshot
became a reality and something that the villagers seem justly proud
of.
It
would be fascinating to eavesdrop on those future residents as they
look back at Poulshot in 2100 and assess how life has changed during
the first one hundred years of the 21st century.
The
chances are the changes will not be so dramatic - or impact on so
many people - as those that affected life in Poulshot in the century
before.
Down
Poulshot
will remain a revealing and important record of those changes.
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