You can see the range of things we hope to cover, by looking on the News page

To give some examples of how you might be able to help us with information:

• Maybe in your collection of family snapshots you have photos of the town, the townsfolk, events and special occasions - perhaps the only remaining record of these things.
• Do you have cine and video footage of things like events, parades, celebrations?
• And what about memories - stories you can tell or your parents told you? If we don't get them recorded they will be gone forever, and lost to future generations. We need people to tell us about things like the shops, the factories, the clubs and pubs, parades, events, schools, churches, chapels, and so on.

Passport photograph for South End Junior School's trip to Belgium 1960 - in the back ground High St South Back  row: 1 Michael Cox, 2 Stewart Ingram, 3 Colin Clark, 4 Philip Cave, 5 (?) , 6 Paul Buckby, 7 Howard Elliot ? Second row: 8 (?) , 9 Jonathan Stranger, 10 (?) , 11 Barry Scholes, 12 Vivien Taylor, 13 Shirley/Janet Moore 14 Elizabeth De Chastelane, 15 (?) , 16 (?) , 17 Jane Penn, 18 Elizabeth Nunley, 19 ? Keech, 20 Noel Brown, 21 ? Curtis Front row: 22 Rosemary Mason, 23 Barbara Wagstaff, 24 Yvonne Watkins, 25 Valerie Panther, 26 Susan Astle 27 Mrs Neville, 28 Mr Harley, 29 Miss Wendy Hooton, 30 Denise ?, 31 Susan Attley, 32 Penny Whitwell, 33 Anne Wheatley Mrs Neville's husband (a teacher at another Rushden School) also came, as did Jane Penn's older sister (she may have been called Jennifer) owing to one child having to drop out. It was very difficult for a lot of parents to let us go on this trip as the shoe trade in Rushden had a bad patch with a lot of short time, making money very tight. On the holiday my camera got sand in it so this is the only photograph I have. Valerie Beales. Does anybody have any more pictures of this trip? or can you fill in or correct any of the names given here. Valerie will write a little about the trip, and we'll be publishing the complete article in due course, so any help with completing the details will be very welcome.

Charabanc Trip The vehicle is outside the Bell in Odell. It is thought that this was a trip around North Bedfordshire in about 1935. Can You help us with any more information?

This butcher's van is thought to be standing in Avenue Road. Can you tell us anything more about the van and the people in the photo?

The demolition of the Railway Bridge Do you remember it? Were you there? Would you tell us about it?

This is a wide-ranging and exciting project. To complete something of this scope within about 18 months (Easter 2007 - December 2008) will require a lot of time and commitment. Putting the website together will be done by a group of local volunteers. Would you like to be one of them?

We need people who would be interested in:

• Researching Topics
• Interviewing People
• Collating Information
• Writing and Transcribing Articles and Stories for the site
• Scanning and Preparing Images for the web pages
• Producing the pages and linking them to make up completed sections

All we need from you is your time, your interest, and a willingness to learn new skills if you need to. Trainers and colleagues are there to support you. You can work solo on small topics, if you prefer to do so - larger topics will probably have to be done by a team working in a co-ordinated way.

You don't have to commit to participating in the project for 18 months. We can make good use of a morning, an afternoon or an evening for a couple of months, if that is all you can manage. Just tell us what sort of times you could spare and over what period, and we'll do our best to work with that. Depending on when people are available, it is envisaged that we would be doing actual production work in a morning, an afternoon and an evening a week, with other sessions to suit numbers and availability. Research work can of course go on at any time to suit volunteers. Note: The project ran for two full years and is continuing.

If this sounds like the sort of thing you'd like to have a go at, then get in touch with us. E-mail us using the link at the top or bottom of this page, or come along to one of the following workshop sessions:

The story of the town and the lives of the people here belongs to us all. Help us to tell it.