My Journey into Local History
a talk for the Chester Group of the FHSC

Road Map for the talk

The initial fascination with our own house's history
• front & side and plan; Brown's plan ; the well..the bottles
• the deeds & the covenant (view of plan)
• folklore yarns or history...dairymans / nursery ground...
• someone needs to record Upton park's history....view the minutebook
  ......so what and where is Upton Park - why the interest ?...helicopter ride

Starting a website for Upton Park
• mapping out the content with a policy and a guestbook
• yarns as well as facts
• stories/authentic?records to give interest / acedemic record
• UPPA's minute book & ledger
• record for each house (&plot) eg no:13
• let the pictures tell the stories....OS maps
• people as well as houses and dev history
• the 1000 piece jigsaw with 100 then 150 pieces
• the Millennium photographs..bring it up to date

The Upton Park network blossoms
• guestbook entries from around the world...pointing out whats wrong
• my star contributor
• permission to use some ???? material...Scally...&....sabine
• virtually no-one wants to be left out...show 17 & 29 & 64

and so the book - and the street cred it provides
• 'with a little help from my friends
• only one person upset
• our originals promised to CRO

launching an Upton-by-Chester Local History Group
• sounding out interest
• lets look at the ULHG site............