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One thing is certain no item of village history since January 1987is likely to be lost
now, as this was the time when Jenny Silavs first arrived Briantspuddle with her
husband George. She started to collect newspaper clippings, souvenir posters for
village events, orders of service for local weddings and funerals, and all sorts of
items of interest.
“A love of history allied to a love of collecting creates problems in a very small
cottage” says Jenny, who lives at The Hollow.
“In 1997, I was determined to have a good clear-out, but came across the
newspaper clipping of vicar Jonathon Burke dedicating the memorial stone
erected for the celebration of the millenium in 1987. Thiis prompted me to start to
compile a village scrapbook. That scrapbook is now in its fourth volume.
“It is not intended as a scholarly work,” adds Jenny. “It is merely the recording of
the happenings, the joys and the sorrows, triumphs and perhaps the tragedies of
the ordinary everyday men and women who inhabit a small part of England that
we all love so well.”

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