St Thomas the Martyr, Upholland

[PhilB-C]

No reply from Joe yet but I'm forging ahead on the off-chance that a digital CD will be of interest in your shop .... each individual sheet takes 4-5 hours for stage 1 (scanning and making readable) and I'm hoping to be able to be able to convert them all to pdf format at the end (that will be stage 2).
A very time consuming exercise so it's no wonder it's soooo expensive to have done commercially !

[MaryA]

Thank you, he does have many hospital apoinntments, could be in the middle of some of them, he will reply when he gets the chance.

[PhilB-C]

No problem, I have found the two entries I was searching for (there might be others) and I just though that as I like messing with computers and St Thomas has never been put on CD, it would (a) be a nice project to get my teeth into and (b) you could sell them in your shop as it might be useful to others

[PhilB-C]

We have a green light from Joe, it's going to take a while but eventually you will have a pdf CD for St Thomas the Martyr with my grateful thanks

[MaryA]

That's lovely of you, thanks a lot, it's going to be very useful for a lot of people.

[PhilB-C]

It's slow going but I am getting there. A home flatbed scanner is not designed for doing this but the end results are readable so it's definitely worth continuing with the project.

The kind gentleman at St Thomas kindly took photographs of two headstones for me as promised - one of which is now face down on the ground. This highlights the importance of the work undertaken by your group back in 1987 - were it not for all their hard work and dedication, the inscription would have been lost (possibly) for ever .... Well done and a big thank you.

[MaryA]

And well done to that volunteer for your photographs - one of those Random Acts of Kindness and a case of Pass it Forward, that sort of generous act always comes back good.

[PhilB-C]

CD popped in the post to Joe today

[MaryA]

Well done and thank you Phil!