Our President, Brian Cowley, was for many years the association’s Chief Road Steward and as a meticulous record keeper and excellent archivist he has maintained a collection of decades of copies of the Town Crier, both at the borough’s archives at Uxbridge Library and in his own collection.
This year we will be both replacing our current website and beginning a digitisation project of the hundreds of old copies of the Town Crier – making accessible much local history and tracking the development and growth of Ruislip and Ruislip Manor.
Thanks to Brian, we have the very first issue scanned below – reproduced in whole, online, for the first time.
Brian Cowley served many years as our Chief Road Steward. Succeeded by the late Alan Jones and now Daniel O’Neill, Brian has given much of his personal collection of Town Crier back issues to Daniel for the digitisation project. It’s very much a winter evening project: we are committed to digitising every issue and publishing them online… but quite how, we’re not yet sure.
If you have any experience, suggestions, or simply just time to volunteer – Daniel would like to hear from you: please get in touch by email on steward@ruislipresidents.org.uk or call 07905 809760.
As was the case in 1955, we always welcome help with deliveries of the Town Crier magazine. Please see the list of roads we need help with: if you live on, or near, any of them – please volunteer! Our next issue will be ready for delivery at the end of August or the first week of September.
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