Ian passed me a folder of PONS stuff and it proved interesting, well a little, so I thought that I would put them in the blog as a little bit of our history.

Here is a list of PONS members from December 1992:

of the above, four are still active members and Audrey too.

This is the list from 1995: so in this list Ben has appeared so it makes 5 still active.

Here, now is a letter from Keith (Trumper) our first footpath officer and founder of the PONS group, to Ian Pennell dated 12 Jan 1996 suggesting it was time to find a new ‘leader’ but as he refers to the County’s new scheme (the Parish Paths Partnership P3) and the Parish Council, he means a new footpath officer.

For the record, the PONS is still going strong, Feb 2015, full credit to Keith and the founder members.  The group remains very active and well represented; here are the current members:

Jon Pearsall, Tom Pearsall, John Corbett, Tim Nott (and sometimes his family members), Ian Pennell, Ben Cartwright, Simon Honeybourne, Alasdair Maxwell-Stewart, Tony Lewington, Mike Install, Rob and Ross Day, Carl Armstrong, Andy Palmer.  We hope and believe that Keith would be proud, we know Audrey (Keith’s wife), now moved to the village centre, is.