 Hear BBC Wiltshire's report on the launch of Down Poulshot
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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| |  | | The 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. Click here to return to to the first page |
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