Le Petit Blue, 5 July 2012

Towards a New Twinning

An article about the cultural twinning of Walkern with Lanvallay, published in Le Petit Blue, the local paper for the Dinan region, on 5th July 2012. The article has very kindly been translated for us by Brenda Lowe
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Towards a new twinning

[Words under the photo] For more than 10 years Jean-Pierre Fournier has been scouring the county archives, religious records and ferreting out the slightest piece of information about the origins and the history of the community where he lives.

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In any case it is the wish of the Walkern History Society, a revered society in the English village of Walkern which shares a rich past with Lanvallay through a common noble ancestry in the Middle Ages.

Peter Sinclair is an English citizen and member of the Walkern History Society.