Zeppelin over Yarwell. The Zeppelin.

We have started to make the Zeppelin for our new exhibition for 2014, ‘ A Zeppelin over Yarwell’.

The frame is to be constructed from polystyrene sheets and bamboo. We shall stretch thin cotton over the frame and glue it in place, it will then be painted.  The completed zeppelin will be 1.2 m at the widest point and about 3.5 m long. Our biggest problem is likely to be hanging it high up in the Tithe Barn.

We cut out the polystyrene in the kitchen because it was far too cold to work  in the Tithe Barn.

We made a hell of a mess and even after hoovering we are still finding pieces of foam on the floor.

A Zeppelin Over Yarwell

A Zeppelin Over Yarwell

With our grants all in place, £3400 from the National Heritage Fund and with £500 from the
Northamptonshire County Council Empowering Councillors & Community Scheme, we are full steam head.
We have spent a lot of time researching the war dead and injured from our local communities, and we have also been looking at the families of these soldiers. Luckily  Lance Lock who lived in Nassington as a young boy and then in the neighboring village of Yarwell, wrote a history of the villages, called When I Was A Boy. He was born in 1910 and educated in the Nassington Primary school.
 It is full of information about the first world war families, which is proving to be very useful. Lance knew every one, and as an adult he had a lovely farm in Yarwell. All his barns on Manor Farm ,Yarwell have now been converted into houses and the farm has completely lost its identity.

We will be having two mannequins in our exhibition, one dressed as a WWI soldier and the other as  a land army girl.

 Oundle Public School has lent us a WWI uniform, which is a great help because they are very expensive to buy.  All we now have to obtain is a shirt, socks and shoes.