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712	Stapleford and District U3A has pioneered a local history research project documenting the names and personal details of every grave in the old part of the town’s Cemetery.  The Shared Learning Project involved around 18 U3A members who spent five months this year transcribing every detail of the headstones in the cemetery which dates back to 1884. This included using different research techniques to fill in the missing details which had been weathered away over time.
160	Transcribe the gravestone memorials at Stapleford cemetery. The first burials took place in the 1880's and many of the inscriptions were virtually illegible and as time goes by even more headstones will become broken or unreadable.