Acknowledgements
Project
Staff:
Helen Burns, Project Assistant
Robert Davies, Project Leader
Margaret Reid, Project Assistant
Anthony Sawyer, Project Manager
The following people have given us a tremendous amount of advice, encouragement and practical help:
New Opportunities Fund: Andrea Allen, Case Officer, NOF
Library Service: Tudfil Adams, County Librarian; Margaret Stacy, Newtown Library; Chris Price, Brecon Library. For their help and support in arranging talks to the community in the libraries about the project, Liz Todd and the staff at Machynlleth Library; Jan Poole and the staff at Ystradgynlais Library; Amanda Swift and the staff of Newtown Library, Kate Murray and the staff of Brecon Library.
Library Delivery Service: Mike Bennett and Darcy
Schools Library Service: Diane Jones and staff
Powys County Council Legal Section: Walter Burns
Powys County Archives Office: Gavin Hooson and Catherine Richards
Modern Records Centre: Gwen Middleton and Anna Page
Children, Families & Lifelong Learning Directorate: John Evans, Roy Griffiths, Liz Hinkley, Maldwyn Pryce, Sarah Ryan, Jonathan Wright
Translation Unit
Public Relations and Communications Unit: John Evans and Emma Savage
'Diary
Day' Publicity:
Lynwen Davies and Siwan Ellis, Translation Unit, Powys County Council;
BBC
Wales Today, BBC
Radio Wales/Cymru, Radio Maldwyn, HTV
Wales, S4C; Mid
Wales Agenda, The
Brecon and Radnor Express, County
Times, Mid
Wales Journal, Shropshire
Star, South
Wales Echo; Davina Hooson, Llandrindod
Wells Church in Wales School, Trefonnen; Headteacher Bill Bain, staff
and pupils at Builth
Wells County Primary School; Headteacher Penri Roberts, staff and
pupils at Ysgol Dafydd Llwydd, Newtown; Mrs Hughes, Staff and pupils at
Ysgol-y-Bannau;
Mrs F Howard, staff and pupils at Hay-on-Wye
County Primary School; Joanne Weale, Commonwealth Games Bronze Medalist;
Margaret and Charlie Walker; Iolo Williams, TV presenter and conservationist;
Phil Morris; Carol Land and staff of Powys Catering; Chris Bumford, Middleton
Arms Hotel, Tremont Road, Llandrindod Wells, Powys; Somerfield Supermarket,
Llandrindod Wells; Staff and Children at 'First Steps Nursery', Llandrindod
Wells; Theatr
Powys; Dianne Jones and staff of Powys Schools Library Service; Radnorshire
Wildlife Trust
Website Launch:
Frances
Donovan, presenter, History
Hunters; Media
Resource Centre, Llandrindod Wells; Fingers & Forks Catering; Davina
Hooson, Trefonnen
School; Mandy Davies, Llandrindod
Wells Victorian Festival
Powys
County Council & Service Points:
County Library Headquarters and Branch and Mobile Libraries; Social Services Department;
Tourist Information Offices; Leisure Centres; Sports Centres; Telecentres;
Cashier and Reception Areas
Corporate IT: Garry Hudson, Sion Pennant, and Nick Talbott
Museums
in Powys
David Moore and staff of Brecknock
Museum and Art Gallery
Rachel Sholl, Will Adams, and staff of Radnorshire
Museum
Eva Bredsdorff and staff of Powysland
Museum and Montgomery Canal Centre
Private
Collections & Museums
Celia Green, Customer Services Manager, and Alison Hembrow, Education
Officer, South
Wales Borderers Museum
Gabby Rivers, Curator, Judges
Lodgings, Presteigne
David Higman, Curator, The
National Cycle Collection, Llandrindod Wells, Powys
Pryce-Jones Collection, 'Reality Group' plc, Newtown
Powys
Health Care Trust
Hamish Stonebridge, Hospital Administrator, Llandrindod Wells War Memorial
Hospital - archives
All Surgeries and Health Clinics in Powys
Project
Partners
Brecknock Society, Powys Family History Society, Powysland Club, Radnorshire Society
Project
Contributors
Mrs Baird Murray, Builth Wells Camera Club, Roger Casstles, Sadie Cole, Hwyl
Gwyn Evans, Alwena Howells, Geraint Hughes, Caryl Jones, Diana Latter, Ellis
Mathias, Trevor Mcpherson, David Peate, Peter Powell, David Pugh, Geoff Ridyard,
Ann & Vic Rigarlsford
Special
acknowledgements
Business Connect for sponsorship; over 4,000 diary contributors from all
walks of life, living, visiting or working in Powys on 24th September
2002; Gordon Reid, Leith Haarhof, Jonathan Curtis - and the team from
Gathering the Jewels;
Gavin Hooson and Bob Reid, Digital
History Project; Eurwen Booth, translator; Geraint Roberts, Menter
Brycheiniog; Caryl Jones, Ystradgynlais Family History Society; supermarkets in
Powys that distributed and collected in diary forms; County nursery and
play groups; Christ
College, Brecon; John Stephenson and staff of Coleg
Powys; Powys Merched y Wawr; Powys Federation of Womens Institutes;
Williams Coaches; Vicky Fraser, David Peate and Sadie Cole for proof-reading;
Mike Sivier, Mid Wales Agenda - 1891 edition