SOME of the original members of Abergavenny Women's Peace Group visited the town's museum recently to present a collection of memorabilia about the group.

Katrina Gass said she was delighted that the Women's Archive of Wales had accepted the records, a collection of papers, posters, pictures and press cuttings from the Abergavenny Chronicle and Abergavenny Gazette.

She said, "These significant local activities will be put on public deposit at the Abergavenny Museum so that there will be easy access to them. I hope that this will inspire others to look in their attics and bring back into the light of day records of past local organisations."

A roadshow, held in July, was part of a two-year project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, which gave members of the public the chance to make their stories part of history by collecting and preserving original material recording women's lives in Wales.

The Abergavenny Women's Peace Group was formed in response to an invitation from the women at the Greenham Common Peace Camp. The Peace Camp had been established in 1981 following a Peace Walk from Cardiff to the USAF base in Berkshire to protest about the proposed location of Cruise Missiles.

Two full coaches left Abergavenny to take part in the Embrace the Base Action on December 12, 1982. The collection includes photographs from this event and many others that took place in Abergavenny.

Two other related deposits have been made, the mini 'Peace Camp' at Caerwent, organised by Marian Pepler and Anne Francis and the other records the making of a peace banner for the One Hundred Years of Women's Banners Exhibition, which was one of the first major exhibitions to be on display in the renovated Museum in 1990.

Member Lyz Hones, who was at the handover along with Katrina and Cath Haslam, curator said she enjoyed reminiscing about the group's activities in the eighties.

"It's an important archive for the museum and we are pleased to have it," said Cath.

Anyone interested in making deposits relating to women's lives in Wales should contact the Women's Archive of Wales on 01792 229221. For information about the Peace Group deposits, contact Cath Haslam at Abergavenny Museum on 854282.

•Katrina Gass, Cath Haslam and Lyz Jones.