About the Author
| Rex Needle is a retired journalist with extensive experience in newspapers, television and radio, who has been running the Bourne web site since August 1998 with the assistance of his wife Elke. He has been researching the history of Bourne for the past ten years and the results have been committed to a CD-ROM A Portrait of Bourne. There have been previous histories of the town but this archive now surpasses them all, containing more than 4,000 photographs and over a million and a half words of text. |
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| Some of this material is on
display at the Heritage Centre, the town's museum, and is also used in the
town guide, while other web sites that have an interest in Bourne, both in
Britain and abroad, continually seek permission to include subject matter
relevant to their own interests. Regular illustrated
articles written by the author are also published by The Local
newspaper in Bourne and in various magazines in Lincolnshire and
elsewhere. Copies of the CD-ROM have been made
available to Lincolnshire County Archives, public libraries and schools for use
in social history studies while a companion book,
The Bourne Chronicle, was
published in the summer of 2005 and a second,
Tales of Bourne from Past Times,
in 2009. The constantly expanding genealogy section has
also put
many people in touch with lost relatives while the discussion forum is
highly regarded as one of the liveliest and best informed in the region
and a model for other community web sites. See also Other titles by Rex Needle |
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