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The Bourton Village Video of 1983 | Part 3/3

Forty years ago Sue and John Holman and Trevor Bailey decided to make a video about their village, Bourton in Dorset, and its people. They had previously been central to efforts to influence authority over the village’s traffic problems, including a march of protest down the main road which attracted national media, and to the successful campaign to get the local pub re-opened after its closure by an unsympathetic brewery. Now they wanted to make a record of the community as it was in 1983 and, in the process, help residents old and new to understand more about each other’s viewpoints. Rural life had changed massively since the 1960s and would continue to do so. There was much that needed to be expressed. It was certainly an amateur effort using borrowed equipment which, although itself semi-professional, was primitive by modern standards. Editing had to be quite crude. It took a vast amount of work but the video was eventually completed and made available to the community on VHS copies. Part of the aim was to involve the BBC, which made and broadcast a 26 minute documentary about the creation of the Bourton Village Video. Subsequently a small booklet was published partly to encourage other villages to use the media in a similar way. The upshot was that Bourton had an unusual moment in the public consciousness. The old master tapes of the Bourton Video have lain unused for many years. Quite often people who remember the project have asked if the video could be restored and made available again. Now at last that has happened. The original tapes have been digitised and, although they have developed a few faults over four decades of storage, they have survived remarkably well. The complete video runs for 2 hours 20 minutes but here is presented in three parts. This is Part Three. Here then is a village community as it saw itself in 1983.