Ashwell Year Book 2002

Welcome to the 2002 edition of the Ashwell Yearbook 2001 was a year that many would like to forget. Foot and Mouth restrictions made a large difference to the way the countryside worked and played. Then the fearful attacks in the USA in September. 2002 will see the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and let us hope it will be a golden year for Ashwell. My thanks as always to Norman, Judy and Malcolm for their work in producing this fine publication.

Fergus Moynihan Chairman, Ashwell Parish Council

EDITORIAL

We hope you will find this an interesting issue, the fourteenth incidentally, with more photographs than ever, more poetry, more news of Ashwell people and the Classified Directory revised.

More and more of our contributors are using e-mail facilities and David Short has contributed a useful article listing some of the websites applicable to Ashwell.

2001 has seen some disappointments, the biggest for many being the abandonment of the Community Centre Project. However, we shall continue to profit from the opening of the Museum Extension, with especial congratulations to our honorary Curator, Peter Greener and his hardworking helpers. We delight in the fact that our County Councillor, Ian Simpson, is an Ashwell resident.

We thank all those who have contributed photographs. It is a pity we cannot use them all, but hopefully you will enjoy the selection. Apologies to anyone whose published photograph has not been properly acknowledged.

Our warm thanks to our advertisers, old and new, without whose support the scope and quality of this publication would be unattainable.