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Civil local authority for Cossall, Nottinghamshire

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Book scanner for Cossall Parish Council minutes

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Parish Councils were formed in England 135 years ago under the Local Government Act of 1894 to take over civic duties in rural towns and villages like Cossall.

Photo of a man using a laptop computer to together with a book scanner

Cossall is very fortunate that the minutes, which were taken at these meetings right back to 1894, were handwritten in a series of seven beautifully bound leather books which are still in our possession.

The Government, some time ago made available an amount of money called the “Transparency fund”, this was to enable small councils with a limited budget to apply for funding to assist with the publication of Council Minutes etc. on the website, Cossall was successful in its bid for funding and things are moving along nicely.

One of the things we decided to do with the grant we received was to purchase a book scanner to enable us to digitise the old minute books and publish them on the website.

Photo of a book scanner positioned over an open book with hand-written text

We would like to form a group of interested people to carry out this work, instead of being a hard and boring task, we intend to try and make it an interesting series of get-togethers. We can read and enjoy the books whilst providing this important act of preserving our history.

This could build into something really useful and exciting so if you have any other papers you think would be suitable and would like to have them saved for posterity, these could also be scanned as well.

The old Minutes documents are available to download on the Minutes page.

Photo-scan of a page from an 1897 Cossall Parish Council minute book showing a list of meeting attendees
Photo-scan of a page from an 1897 Cossall Parish Council minute book showing a list of meeting attendees (click image for larger view)

No computer skills are necessary at all and tea and coffee making ability would be a much-appreciated asset.

If you are at all interested in taking part or just want to come and look at the books, please get in touch (details below):

Councillor John Wheatley
Email: j.b.wheatley@btinternet.com
Phone: 07976877603 (please leave a message if no reply)

Or call at Church Cottage, 22 Church Lane. (I’ll let you have a sneaky look at the books)

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Initiatives

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The main special initiatives the council are working on at the moment include the Cossall Neighbourhood Plan and combating illegal off-road bikers and other traffic-related issues.

In addition, we wish to digitise the old council minutes which date back to the start of the parish council in 1894 and we are looking for ideas to help us to try to prevent loneliness in the parish.

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About us

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A Parish Council is a civil local authority, first tier of Local Government responsible for areas known as Civil Parishes. On our website we provide details of our councillors, dates of meetings and copies of the minutes and finance information.

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  • Annual Parish Meeting 9th March 2025
  • Village For Sale 8th February 2025

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Meetings venue

Cossall Community Hall, Church Lane, Cossall, Nottinghamshire, NG16 2RW

Meetings Schedule

3rd Tuesday in the month at 7.30pm
No meetings in August and December

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