On Saturday morning 3rd November the Library was packed to mark this year’s poignant WW1 centenary .
For the first half of the hour-long event there were video clips from the HISTORY MAKERS project interspersing poems, prose and original writing read by local people. Follow the links to see what went on:
| VIDEO | Interview with Delphine Joyce, age 103, remembering WW1 and the Armistice Day when she was a child. |
| First World War Statistics | Read by Robert Davies |
| VIDEO: The History Makers Anthem | An original composition by Mary Keith, based on the poem In Flanders Fields re-imagined by poet John Richmond, and performed by the Mere Singers with Mary Webb students. |
| THE LETTER | An original story written & read by Peter Traves |
| In Memoriam (Easter, 1915) | by Edward Thomas, read by Merle Traves |
| Extract from Private Peaceful | by Michael Morpurgo read by Malcolm Whittall |
| Lost Words | by Mavis Gulliver |
| SACRIFICE | written and read by Janet Brain |
| Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen | Read by Bob Boden |
| Last Post | by Carol Ann Duffy Read by Sian Campbell-Curtiss |
| VIDEO | REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY |
| POPPY BOOKMARKS | The making and distribution of nearly 500 bookmarks across the Rea Valley area |