Evening Telegraph, Thursday, September 27, 2001
Tapestries are sew pleasing
THREE years of hard work has resulted in the members of Rushden Amenities Society and other helpers sewing up a Millennium project.
A series often tapestries, each one depicting a decade from the last 100 years of Rushden, has just been completed.
Rushden mayor and signwriter Clive Wood volunteered to produce the original designs. These were then sent to a computer company in Dagenham which produced the colour charts for the actual tapestries.
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PICTURES OF HISTORY - the tapestries project with, from left,
Megan Laughton, Betty Abbott, chairman of Rushden Amenities
Society Ivy Gould, Geoff Abbott and mayor Clive Wood.
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Cllr Wood said: "These are paintings made in wool. There are 60 colours in each panel and nearly 200 colours were used in total."
Ivy Gould, the society chairman, said: "I am so pleased we have completed them. A lot of hard work and team effort went into making the tapestries."
With only two members of the society making the panels, volunteers were called in to help with the project.
The ten panels will be on display at Christmas time in the Heritage Centre, Newton Road, Rushden. A site where they can be on permanent display to the public has yet to be found.
The panels were made by Megan Laughton, 1900 and 1970; Joy Clayson, 1910; Marie Burton, 1920; Jenny Miller, 1930; Joy Young, 1940; Moira Osborne, 1950; Mary Garratt, 1960; Geoff and Betty Abbott, 1980 and Grace Brown, 1990.
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