Recently there has been rapid progress: the Hawker Association has agreed to sponsor the project, an application for Heritage Lottery Fund support is being prepared, a professional Chartered Accountant has volunteered to manage the finances and the Surrey Comet has published a whole page report on the plans.
Joint Project Leaders David Hassard and Bill Downey are ready for some more help. If you could volunteer even a few half days in Kingston to help prepare project plans or start scanning and recording some of the employee information and photographs which are surfacing they would like to hear from you. Contacts details are: David Hassard 020 8546 2715, hassards@talktalk.net or Bill Downey 020 8949 5498, billdowney@sky.com.
The naming of people in long-service photographs at the August
Hawker Association meeting proved to be a popular activity. If you have
long-service award programmes (or the newspaper reports listing names)
and a photograph or two to match, please do bring them along to future
meetings where they can be scanned for the project's "Hawker People"
archive.