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The Millennium Book -Web Edition
Introduction
Two copies of the original Millennium Book exist.
One is kept in the County Archive at Taunton. The other is kept in the
village, and can be viewed by request.
The main purpose of the Millennium Book is to
provide future generations with a 'snap-shot' of life in the Parish as
it existed in the year 2000.Many people were involved in its
preparation, probably well over a hundred, led by a small team who were
responsible for its the actual production . Hundreds of hours were spent
in its preparation, and this alone is an indication of the spirit and
vitality of our community
Each copy weighs over two kilograms, and runs to
over a hundred size A3 pages. There is an additional volume devoted to
photographs of most of the houses in the Parish, but these have
not been included in the Museum Web site due to concerns over security.
Winsham Web Museum is grateful to the Millennium
Book Committee for the opportunity to adapt the Millennium Book for
inclusion in the Web Museum. In doing so it has remained faithful
to its content, but has not tried to produce a facsimile of the work.
Our main concern has been to achieve access to its content for many more
people than is practicable for a book of which only two copies exist,
and present it in a manner that is easily read.
The very nature of a web site necessitates a
difference of approach from the original book form. It is, for example,
essential to include menus to facilitate navigation around the virtual
gallery in which it is contained. The various contributions, of which
there are over a hundred, all have a unique appearance in the original
volumes. In the adaptation you will see here, each page follows a
standard format, and a standard approach to the way in that each
contribution is displayed. The original Millennium Books are a delight
in themselves, and the web-version cannot be, and does not try to be a
substitute for the real thing. The actual text remains unchanged.
Use is made of many photographs, and in a limited
number of situations, text pages have had to be exhibited as image
files. For many who, at the time of reading this, do not have Broadband
it will mean some delay while the files load. For this we apologise. In
the preparation of the adaptation, we have constantly had to make
judgments relating to the visual quality of an image relative to the
speed at which it loads onto your screen.
Please be patient. We are sure the final
images will be worth waiting for.
2009 Second Edition-In
2009 it was decided to change the the style of presentation of the
web-based Millennium Book, as part of a fundamental redesign of the Web
Museum. Broadband is now very widely used, and software developments
have greatly improved display options. Furthermore, with the development
of the Winsham E-Letter and The Winsham Parish Web site, and
developments in mobile phone technology, greater interactivity is
becoming very necessary, making links to individual pages within the
Museum from outside sources an essential facility. The content of the
Millennium Book remains unchanged.
Finding your way around is very easy!
The Millennium Book is divided into
nine main sections -
Diary - The People - Special Events - The
Walks - The Organisations - The Businesses - The Weather - Miscellany -
The Press. These sections are reached
by left clicking on'Index' at the foot of this page. This will take you
to sub-menu. When you see the item that interests you, click on the
picture ,and
you will immediately go to the item , or to a sub-menu. Then click on
the item in the sub menu.
The Millennium Book contains links to appropriate
sections of the Winsham Web Museum. Where a link exists the type appears
in a lighter shade of
Blue. Left
click on the text to go to the item. If a return link does not exist
adjacent to the item at which you arrived, you can return to the
Millennium Book via the Web Museum's Main Menu.
Index
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