Project launch preparation and local connections
I have just given the website a major tidy up hopefully making it a little more self explanatory. We are still short on our funding target and still looking for backers to plug the gap. But the project goes ahead.
Some fascinating local resonance stories coming in which we will report on in more detail as time allows.
In Frome we are looking to make more of a connection with the story of Alice Seeley Harris, born in Frome and an early Human Rights activist. A photographer and missionary and campaigner she did much to expose the genocide taking place in what was then the Belgian Congo at the turn of the 20th Century.
We have had contact from a descendant of soldiers who helped liberate the Belsen death camp. Many of the witness statements for the local war crimes trials were taken by members of the Somerset Light Infantry, so perhaps we will find more descendants and possibly stories of local veterans.
Finally a connection to develop is the news that the walk goes near the burial ground for those who died in the Bath Workhouse. Somerset’s poor dumped in unmarked graves.
Social media links to follow. We hope that the registration booking link for those intending to take part in the walk will be available shortly.