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Norman Palmer was for 20 years my predecessor as Vicar of Bozeat and gave considerable time and skill to researching original documents on the life of the village, particularly in relation to its character in the 19th century, but also back to its roots in the 17th century (where most of our available documents begin) and earlier still. He published several articles in the village magazine About Bozeat which were the result of his meticulous work, and several of these 1 have used in their original form as he gave them to me, together with other interesting and careful studies which he carried out. In these cases, I have shown his name in the chapters concerned in this book.
Acknowledgment must be made to the village magazine About Bozeat which since its inception in 1980 has been a mouthpiece for much of the village history as remembered by villagers themselves, and was the product of sterling and faithful work by such people as Penny Brannon, Diane West and Lynne Ward. We owe them and all who have worked with them a debt of gratitude. The use of information from About Bozeat in this book is appropriately and gratefully acknowledged.
In the early 1990s, two publications of A Pictorial History of Bozeat were published by a group mainly associated with Bozeat Methodist Church, with photographs and other visual and verbal information. I gratefully acknowledge information used from these publications.
I am also indebted to local historian David Hall for information both from his publications and from tape recordings of talks he gave to the Bozeat Historical and Archaeological Society.
My indebtedness to Trevelyan's History of England which has inspired in me a love of 'real' history - that of ordinary people - is clear from repeated quotations from this beautifully written masterpiece.
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