Kington Camp

Project Co-ordinators:

Cressida Fforde and Mari Roberts

Schools Co-ordinator:

Stephanie Baines

Lady Hawkins School Research Team:

Nic Dinsdale, Emma Woolley, Alicia Mae Butler

Website and database construction:

Mercurytide

Archaeology Survey Team:

Graeme Earl, Fiona Handley, Penny Copeland, Nicole Smith, Gareth Beale, Geoffrey Steel, Rosie Fforde

Project Administration:

Alison Rogers (Kington Regeneration Partnership)

Museum Exhibition

Ken and Sue Reeves

This project could not have happened without the help and support of many people. We would like to thank all those who have assisted, and particularly the following for sharing their memories, working on the project and/or supporting its development:

Alison Wright, Bill Brookes, Mick Cresswell, Joan Cresswell, Hazel Harvey, Vicki Stadie, Richard Cunningham, Joan Billingham, Alan Bayliss, Eileen Walters, Peter Collins, Roger Pye, Roz Banks, Angela Davies, Ian Cole, Fred Dale, Frank Dale, Gertrude Davies, Phyllis Williams, Hermann Reismeyer, Gordon Kinder, Barbara Thomas, Terry Owens, Mrs Baynham, Buddy Robinson, Evan & Brenda Wiliams, Rosie Fforde, Tony Richards, Hilda Cowdell, Major Barass, Maddy Fforde, Mick Turner, George Streatfield (Gloucester Regiment Museum), Gorden Wren (Essex Regiment Veterans Association), Bob Widdowson, Mick Turner, Hedley Simcock, Marya Fforde, Vee Harrison, Bruce Hill and Ross Flanigan.

We are especially indebted to the landholders David Williams, Brian Evans and Lawrence Banks for the information they have provided, for allowing access to the site and for their support of the project.

We are also very grateful to staff at Kington Primary School, The Kington History Society, Bob and Lesley Hunt of Titley Junction Railway, members of the Kington Over Sixty’s Club, Sarah Skelton and Virginia Mayes-Write of Herefordshire Heritage Services, Keith Ray and Melissa Seddon of Herefordshire Archaeology Unit, and the Kington Regeneration Partnership.

Finally we would like to that the Home Front Recall Scheme of the Big Lottery Fund for enabling this project to take place.