St Ives-a new millennium - Flipbook - Page 58
St Ives-a new millennium
4/10/02
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Right: Youth Town Council
Photo: Stuart Littlewood/Pentax MX
In 1999 St Ives Town Council decided to give
young people a taste of local government by
creating a Youth Town Council, which shadows
the activities of the full Council. The leading
members of this experiment were Lewis
Knights, David Williams and Chris Broom, all
sixth-formers at St Ivo School.
Pictured here, Lewis is the chairman. An
Arsenal supporter and golf-player, he was
studying A-level English, history, economics
and art. He is supported (left) by David Williams
(treasurer) studying economics, history and
sports studies, and (right) by Chris Broom
(vice-chairman), studying history, politics
and law.
Above: Bridget Smith, chairman of St Ives Civic Society
Photo: James Bunn/CanonEOS620 (from a colour slide)
Bridget has a degree in horticulture and also qualified as a plant
pathologist. She worked at the Tropical Products Institute in London
before moving to the Nature Conservancy Council (now English Nature)
at Huntingdon in 1976. She retired in 1991.
She lives in Hemingford Grey where she has been chairman of the
Parish Council, a co-founder of Hemingfords Branch of the Workers
Educational Association, and chairman of Hemingford Grey Gardeners
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Society. She is currently chairman of Hemingfords Local History Society
and belongs to the Cambridge University of the Third Age (Botany
Group).
In 1999 she stepped down as chairman and footpath officer of
Huntingdonshire Group of the Ramblers Association, and was elected
chairman of the Civic Society of St Ives.
Bridget published ‘The Reading Room Story’, a history of the
Hemingford Grey reading room, to celebrate its centenary in 1998. Her
latest project is the history and botany of Hemingford Grey Meadow.
