Covid Archive 

        We invite contributions to this on-going history project!

In fifty or a hundred years’ time, our grandchildren and great grandchildren will wonder how our community ‘survived’ the Covid-19 epidemic. They will want to know:

• About our fears and hopes. How we coped with the restrictions on our daily lives?
• How education, weddings, funerals, bereavements, religious observance, business, sport, travel, meetings of all kinds, family relationships and regular social activity were impacted?
• How young people handled returning to living and working in the family home, and how this affected family relationships?
• Who did we ‘bubble’ with during this time?
• What we did to break the monotony?
• What books we read, what films we watched, what new interests we took up?
• Where did we walk, run or cycle?
• What did we discover about ourselves and our locality?

For examples of what we are looking for, please visit the tab "Covid Archive" across the top of the Homepage.

Future historians will be eager to access first-hand accounts of our experiences in 2020 and 2021. Here is the chance to provide them with this material.

As we cautiously emerge from Lockdown, Newbridge Local History Group invites you to tell us your Covid stories from your perspective. How Covid impacted on health, family, work, education, sport, business, relationships. We want to hear from the young and not so young.

The aim is to create a permanent archive on what it was like to live in Newbridge during the pandemic. This archive will be permanently available on our website: newbridgehistory.org.