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We The People
The Village Archive Group,
Woolsthorpe & Colsterworth, Lincolnshire, NG33 5**, UK, recording social
history & local people's memories in text, video and audio to preserve vital
oral history and accounts of village life in the twentieth and twenty first
century.
Woolsthorpe and
Colsterworth
The Parish of Colsterworth encompasses the Hamlet
of Woolsthorpe, Dunkirk (down church) an area below the Church
and Twyford, which was originally larger than Colsterworth itself. Woolsthorpe
is especially steeped in history with Woolsthorpe Manor being the birthplace and
family home of Sir Isaac Newton. Now owned by the National Trust it receives
approximately 20,000 visitors per year. Woolsthorpe has its own designated
conservation area. Colsterworth is an historic coaching village, which was an
important staging post on the Great
North Road (now the A1) until the 1920s. This whole
area has changed from an industrial open cast mining community, within living
memory, and is now evolving into an affluent commuter village. Most people were
employed locally and have interesting tales to tell. We hope that by recording
this social history we will add a personal dimension to already documented
historical facts.
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