Sharon Soutar is a GIS and survey specialist in the Investigation and Analysis Graphics Team at Historic England. Combining skillsets as a landscape archaeologist and graphic designer, Sharon has spent over 20 years working in various parts of Historic England.  She became involved in our project in July 2017 and carried out the ground survey back in November 2017.  She was able to accurately mark out the Map for us this summer and has just published her research paper all about the Map of Australia.

You can read all about it here

 

We have a very special Armistice Day service on the Map of Australia, observing the two minutes silence at 11 o’clock.  The service was held by Rev Bill Smith along with Lieutenant James Davis, Australian Army and included readings by RAF and RAAF personnel along with some of our volunteers.  It was a very moving and poignant service.

 

Following a very generous donation by a local resident, our brand new flagpole was put up ready for Armistice Day.  We had already concreted in the base, so with the light fast fading on a dull November afternoon, we took the flagpole up to the top of the downs and then set it in place – that was the easy bit.  Working out how to hoist the flag was another matter!

 

A lovely little piece appeared on the BBC News website on Sunday 4th November.

See it here

To watch the BBC Inside Out programme, see our Blog page for 5th November

 

 

Meet Tallulah, our little mascot!  She has been up on the slopes with owner Rex for several of our dates this summer and will chase and retrieve sticks all day…