<td width="640" valign="top" class="j"> <p class="h1c">Welcome to the Website <br> of the<br> Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society</p> <p class="nc">Registered charity number 1079823</p> <p class="n"> The Society was founded in 1960, to encourage an interest in the history of Bury St Edmunds and surrounding area. We hold regular meetings with guest speakers, and organise occasional visits to places of historical interest.</p> <p class="n"> To find out about joining the Society and learning more about local history, please <a href="membership.html"> click here</a>.</p> <a name="whats_new"></a> <p class="h2c">What's New?</p> <p class="n"><b>600 more pictures available on-line</b><br> We have now finished digitising all the Spanton Jarman images of Bury St Edmunds, and copies of them are available in the <a href="http://www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/sro/">Suffolk Record Office.</a> It transpires that many of them are very similar, so the best 900 are now available on this site, which you can see by <a href="jarman.html">clicking here.</a> <p class="n"><b>Photographic Competition.</b><br> Today we announce our Photographic Competition, with prizes amounting to £1,000. All the details are available by <a href="competition.html">clicking here.</a> </p> <p class="n"><b>Captioners Required</b><br> We are currently seeking to recruit a team of volunteers to prepare informative captions for new pictures and to add further understanding to the pictures already on the website. If you would be interested in joining the team, know someone who may be interested, or would like to learn more about the project, please contact us at <a href="mailto:chairman@BuryPastAndPresent.org.uk">chairman@BuryPastAndPresent.org.uk</a>. By the way, you will not need to be computer literate in order to make a contribution ... all you need is paper and a pencil! </p> <p class="n">Photographic Competition</p> <p class="n">We are holding a competition with prizes amounting to £1000 to find the best modern-day version of Spanton Jarman photographs, pictures, images and negatives of Bury St Edmunds. <br><br> All you have to do is to take a picture from the same viewpoint as one of the photographs available on this web site (see Spanton Jarman Collection of images, negatives, photographs, pictures and bring it along to one of our meetings. All the submitted works and their originals will be exhibited at Moyes Hall Museum during 2007.<br><br><br></p>
Home page Programme for monthly meetings and lectures from 2000-2001 Spanton-Jarman Collection of Photographs of Bury St Edmunds - Introduction - Project - Photographic Competition - Table of Contents - Cross Reference - Captions - Other Places - Application to Use Images - Search Membership Details Library of Local History Links to other sites Contacting Us

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Welcome to the Website
of the
Bury St Edmunds Past and Present Society

Registered charity number 1079823

The Society was founded in 1960, to encourage an interest in the history of Bury St Edmunds. We hold regular meetings with guest speakers, and organise occasional visits to places of historical interest.

To find out about joining the Society and learning more about local history, please click here.


The Committee

The committee is elected at the Annual General Meeting. Committee meetings are held in the homes of various members, about 5 times a year, to plan the programme of lectures and other activities, including the Jarman project.

Committee Members 2007/08
President: Margaret Statham (01284 754549)
Chairman: Betty Milburn (01284 725425)
Treasurer: Stephen Cook (01284 704286)
Secretary: Post currently vacant
Anne Sutton
Angela Pearce
Glen Wiffen
Richard Stewart
Chris Austin
Eric Humphreys

We also have two Honourary Members:
Mr Michael Jarman and
The Mayor of St Edmundsbury

 

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