THE back room of a Winchester pub was filled with writers celebrating their neighbourhood’s latest book.
The Hyde Tavern was the launch venue for Hyde Days and Holidays.
It is the follow-up to Inspired by Hyde, published in 2010, as a spin-off to the Hyde900 celebrations for the 900th anniversary of the burial of King Alfred the Great in Hyde Abbey.
Residents from the Hyde area and writers from local creative writing groups penned poems and prose about Hyde and the surrounding area to travels further afield.
Hyde900, initially founded in 2005, continues today with much achieved in the last nine years including festivals and historic research.
The most recent excitement of the opening of the Unmarked Grave at St Bartholomew’s church and the likelihood of a connection with King Alfred has also been documented in this book by Steve Marper, chairman of Hyde900, and by Edward Fennell, its founder.
Hyde Days & Holidays is on sale via: literature@hyde900.org.uk
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