Lustleigh Community Archives – updating the Lustleigh Community Archive Computers and Printing the Production of the “Lustleigh and World War Two” New Publication.
The Archives of Lustleigh, located in the Old Vestry, provides an important insight into the development of a village situated on the edge of Dartmoor.
The Lustleigh Show are delighted to be able to provide funding to the Archives for the following:
A New Publication in 2025 of “Lustleigh and World War Two”…
Over the past four and a half years, a group of archives volunteers have been carrying out research into the second world war, with particular emphasis on what life was like during the war, particular events affecting the local area and the men who sadly lost their lives.
The text drafts are complete and another volunteer has offered to do the design work, leaving only the cost of printing the publication (to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the end of the war in September 1945).
Lustleigh Community Archive Computers…
The archive catalogue is held in a database on the main archives desktop PC together with various documents, scans, spreadsheets and searchable files (including the digital Tithe Map if 1837). We rely on our computers to be in good working order for the archives to fully function.
Those computers are now beginning to show their age, and require upgrading with a more modern PC which should last us many years into the future and provide a very stable system. The operating system will also be upgraded to Windows 11 Pro.
The backup computers will also be upgraded at the same time, as will the one available for public use.
