Living register
Keeping New Forest traditions alive
The New Forest National Park Authority, the New Forest Centre and the Commoners’ Defence Association have formed a partnership to keep New Forest tradition alive for future generations with part funding from the New Forest LEADER+ Small Grants Scheme.
The ‘Living Register’ will be made up of memories, photographs, local words, Forest place names and stories. The Register will become a living record of the traditions and culture that have made the New Forest so unique through the centuries.
The Register will comprise of a dictionary of local words and place names, a digital catalogue of photographs, web pages and oral histories from local people about their lives and key events in New Forest history.
One of the aims of the project is to create an interactive website of the New Forest’s cultural heritage for people to add their own information or ask questions about anything they have learnt from it.
The project will run for eight months until March 2008.
Anyone wanting information about the LIving Register should visit the New Forest Centre.
