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Originally the website was intended to contain information etc about Rooksbridge. But with Rooksbridge being part of the parish of East Brent, it soon became apparent that this was not really possible. So its now headed 'Rooksbridge and East Brent online'. Hopefully this will appeal to a wider audience! And bring in more articles and information as more people discover and use the free facilities provided. Its all intended to be a sort of light hearted local notice board, so please feel free to use the site as you wish (Within the limits of decency and libel of course! This is a family website and I reserve the right to not publish unsuitable material).

As we are a very small community, recorded historical notes and records etc. are extremely scarce! (I've checked out the local library) None!
Perhaps you have researched your family history, or may have other interesting facts to share. Or maybe you can suggest where we might find records of the past and of villagers and where they lived etc.

We are getting a lot of interest and many enquiries requesting information etc... from visitors from other parts of the country and many from overseas who have connections with our village.

Since writing the above, I have received a vast amount of historical items and stories from visitors to the site. Check out some of the links under the History heading above!

Having had www.rooksbridge.org.uk online for three or four years now, the experience has shown up which pages are popular and those that appear to be just filling space. I felt it was time to revamp the site by expanding the content of the most requested pages and omitting some of under used pages.

You may have noticed that pages such as church and school agenda's and Parish Council planning updates etc. are missing from this new look site.

--These news items are well catered for and published in our superb local 'Community News' magazine edited and produced by Molly Richards--

However, I would be only too pleased to reinstate any of the omitted pages and any of your suggestions for new categories of information when the need arises and the information reaches me.

I see the site developing as a reference and archive for and of, all the activities of our Village both now and from the past.

To that end, I am always looking to borrow photographs and receive anecdotes of the people of Rooksbridge to publish on our village website. Do please contact me with your contribution.
(Check out the Features link for some examples).

(Many of the old photographs within in these pages you will recognise from the pages of the superb Millennium 2000 calendar produced by Dave Walden. And I am indebted to him for his permission to reproduce them on the website. However I would also like to find the original owners of these photo's, so that I can give them due thanks and recognition).

Perhaps the first thing you may notice about our new look village website is, that the pages concentrate more on textual Information and less on ornamental graphics. (This saves yours and my phone costs while online)! And also, by constructing the site using different software, information can now be displayed and expanded upon in a much more logical manner, making the links to information you are looking for easier to navigate. (If an item is underlined, or a hand icon hovers over it, it should take you somewhere)!!
For instance, I have tried to cross reference names and places, so that if a name or place is mentioned elsewhere in the site, the name will be underlined and linked to take you there with a single click. (I have no doubt there are some missing links! Let me know if you find one)!

Due to the interest and enquiries from visitors to the site with past or present connections to Rooksbridge, --many from overseas-- you will find the occasional plea for information. Do please contact me with any information at all that you may think is connected to our plea for help. No matter how small or remote, it could prove to be important. I rely on your response.

As you might imagine, this website is all done on the kitchen table as it were, with no posh facilities or fancy designers fees ! It is updated on an irregular basis ! 'As and when' your contributions arrive and when I've got time!! Which is how I am able to publish it free of charge. You could say its one of my hobbies!

Much of the content is typed in with just two fingers! But I'm getting better! And hopefully my typing skills will improve even more, as you send me more and more items to share and practise on!

As far as the website content is concerned, I still rely on you to provide the information and suggest ways of improving the website !

John. (JR's 'Kitchen table' enterprises)!

About our new look website......