February 2012

WANTED! HALESWORTH’S SPORTING HEROES

Community News February 2012

WANTED! HALESWORTH’S SPORTING HEROES

We’re looking for Halesworth’s Sporting Heroes up at the Museum – people from Halesworth and the villages around who, sometime in the past, made their mark at a county, national or international level, no matter what the sport.

It’s all part of the planning for the Museum’s exhibition on Halesworth’s Sporting Past, scheduled for the summer to coincide with the Olympics. Already local people are proving generous with their help and memories and it’s been rewarding to find how many people care about this aspect of Halesworth life. But there’s plenty of scope for more. If you can nominate someone local who has made their mark in the sporting world, we’ll try to include them on a ‘wall of fame’ as part of the exhibition.

And if you have photos, trophies, objects or just memories about sporting life in the town and around, to help us put this exhibition together, please get in touch with Vic Gray at 01986 872437 (e-mail grayvw@globalnet.co.uk). You can play a really useful part here.

All in all, it’s turning into a busy year for the Museum. The beginning of June will see the Queen’s Jubilee and we shall mark that occasion with a display in the Museum recalling past Royal celebrations in the area. On top of that, we have plans for bringing back the Museum’s popular lectures during the year and, following on from the sell-out success of Mike Fordham’s booklet ‘Halesworth Quay and the Blyth Navigation’, we shall be looking at producing another popular title later in the year.

Finally – if you were one of the many people who asked at the Museum, the Library or Halesworth Bookshop for a copy of the Navigation booklet but were too late to get one – good news! By the time this appears, you’ll find them back in stock. The presses have been rolling again.