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DESPITE the pandemic, local elections, which were cancelled last year, are set to go ahead in May, with Covid-safe campaigning allowed from last Monday [8 March]. Local issues may involve broadband, the loss of the pub or an unsightly solar farm. But what were they 50 or 100 years ago? Perhaps the need to send telegrams from the local post office, or persuading the railway company to open a local station. These are the sorts of issues that add substance to local history and often reveal unusual individuals and dramatic events that have long been forgotten. One of the most impressive village halls anywhere is in Sherfield-on-Loddon, near Basingstoke. Originally a line of cottages built by the rector for local people, it is a tribute to his wife, Agnes Barker, an extraordinary woman who became the first chair of the parish council in 1894, 34 years before women even got the vote! It was she who in 1909 transformed four of the cottages into the village hall in memory of her husb

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