Ian (Pennell–Rock of the Month) and I had the good fortune to meet, towards the end May, with the project manager and team at EHT for the Building Stones Project and have signed up as volunteers. We hope you will too! Contacts there are Katherine Andrew (no ‘s’) Project Manager, Beth Andrews (‘s’ needed) Community Consultant and Elliot Carter Technical Consultant and a bright and dynamic team they are too!
This is a project with the initial aim of listing stone built (bricks need not apply) buildings throughout Herefordshire and Worcestershire and all quarries then try to link the two. It brings in its wake numerous side interests such as the history of the quarries, workers and their lives, the age of buildings and those that lived in them, old trading routes and so on so forth. EHT will most likely join us at one of our evening meetings to give a short presentation on the project, with the hope of recruiting to the cause. Here is their (developing) web site http://lostquarries.wordpress.com/about/ . Also if you wish to join in, why not attend The Hive, 10-12 am Wednesday 12th June for an introductory talk–more details.
Three of us just had an afternoon poring over old maps of the Martley/Clifton/Wichenford area to spot quarries, which we have listed, and also, from memory all the stone built houses, churches, barns etc we could think of. Next step is to journey round taking photos of the buildings but since our area is the whole of the Teme Valley help on this and other facets of the project will be gratefully received by the project team at EHT. So if it is researching old archives, tramping around looking for lost quarries, taking photos, investigating family and building histories and many more takes your fancy–PLEASE GET IN TOUCH. Ian is leading this and his email is , phone 01886 888612