January 2025 Archive Additions

 So, this month, I've added five items to the archive.

On the 14th, the January 2025 issue of the Bar Hill News;

The January issue of the Bar Hill News hasn't been published in quite a while. The original reason for ceasing publication was the time it took to print (and collate) over Christmas. When the Residents Association printed the magazines for the village, it took about 25 hours of printing time (on a single machine). The pages then needed to be collated, distributed, and delivered during Christmas week.

However, printing is now done externally by a much more automated process, which makes it much more manageable. Shifting the deadline also allowed the magazines to be with the distributors before Christmas, taking much of the pressure off. 

It has worked, but we shall see.

Fundamentally, this just wasn't practical. 

The next upload, on the same day, was the February 2025 issue;

There's not a great deal to say about this one; there was quite a lot more local content this month.

Now, we move on to the "Non-Bar Hill" uploads. 

This month, we had three;

 

The first is a souvenir programme for the Queen Mother's 80th birthday in 1980. The next is a training package (with questions and answers) from the early 1970s when the UK decimalisation took place. Finally, a fascinating handwritten book appears to be a telephone operator's handbook, probably from around the 1940s. 

This month, I also collected an old Atari ST and a Dragon 32 computer—the books (and disks) will be archived as soon as possible! I also picked up a bundle of her late father's papers from a resident of Bar Hill. I will go through these and upload them as soon as I can. The three additions this month are all from this new collection.