GETTING a 280-strong community together for a photocall to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee has proved a problem in a North Yorkshire village.
So instead of a public session at Beckwithshaw, near Harrogate, the parish council has asked residents to send in family photographs to make up an album.
Parish council chairman Ian Galloway said other villages had experienced similar difficulties in getting people together for a millennium snapshot because of people's lack of availability and the "vagaries of the English weather".
Councillor Galloway is hoping residents of the area, which includes nearby Haverah Park, will provide names and addresses and background information about the family and how long they have had ties with the area. Eventually, a video will be produced.
Photographs should be sent to Coun Galloway at 1 Moor Park Close, Beckwithshaw (01423) 522606 by May 1, so the album can be produced in time for a gala on June 2.
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