CHAIRMAN Councillor TERL BRYANT D.E.M. I.ENG.M.I.I.Ex.E. Private Address: 47 Caithness Road, Stamford PE9 2TF Tel/Fax (01780) 755734 Mobile: 07850 106050 e-mail: terl1@hotmail.com Council Offices St Peters Hill, Grantham, Lincolnshire NG31 6PZ Tel: Grantham (01476) 406080 Fax: (01476) 406000 Please ask for: Mr. M Hall Chairman's Secretary

30th August 2002

Dear Rex,

As Chairman of South Kesteven District Council, I needed some information on
Corporal Charles Sharpe V.C. to send to the Union Jack Club in London and after
contacting you through the Bourne Internet web site, you kindly sent me a copy of
your CD-ROM "A Portrait of Bourne" which contained a most informative profile
about him together with the only coloured photograph of him I have seen.

I am quite amazed at the depth, painstaking detail and magnitude of the work that
you have done. In these avaricious times it is so gratifying to find that there are folk
out there who will do things for their community because of their interest in the
community without demanding that they be paid for doing it.

The resource that you have made available through this CD-ROM is invaluable now
and in future years as a snapshot of the times will become an equivalent to the
"Domesday Book of Bourne". Every man should, in passing, leave his mark on this
earth, most are unaware that they have done so. Your mark is already there, burning
bright as an example of what an interest in journalism, photography, history and
technology can produce.

Although I now have the CD-ROM, I have added your Internet web site to my
"favourites" so that I can keep abreast of the items that you seem to be constantly
adding.

Keep up the good work

Terl

Councillor Terl Bryant served with the Royal Air Force as a senior technician for 26 years at bases around the world, latterly in London with the Ministry of Defence and NATO. He was elected to South Kesteven District Council in 1988, representing the All Saints Ward in Stamford, and again in 1999 and has also served as Mayor of Stamford. He now runs his own design consultancy and is married with one daughter, his interests including local government and the community, the Scout movement and education, serving as a school governor. Councillor Bryant is also deeply involved with local charities, particularly support groups for multiple sclerosis, having been diagnosed with the illness himself seven years ago.