Lives Less Ordinary ; We All Tend to Think We're Just Ordinary People, but Personal Memories Prove Invaluable Sources to Bring History to Life for Future Generations. David Clensy Meets the Lady Who's Helping to Immortalise the Good Folk of Filton.

Evening Post (Bristol, UK) › December 12, 2007

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We all tend to think we're just ordinary people, but personal memories prove invaluable sources to bring history to life for future generations. David Clensy meets the lady who's helping to immortalise the good folk of Filton.

All too often, history can seem remote - a collection of dusty words and sepia pictures in the darkest recesses of reference libraries.

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Lives Less Ordinary ; We All Tend to Think We're Just Ordinary People, but Personal Memories Prove Invaluable Sources to Bring History to Life for Future Generations. David Clensy Meets the Lady Who's Helping to Immortalise the Good Folk of Filton.

But for Jane Tozer and her friends at the Filton Community History group, history is living and breathing - it's the memories of the people who witnessed the twists and turns of our ever- changing world.

Jane and her fellow local hi...

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