Flora Thompson's life as a local novelist and poet, is to be celebrated, by writers and villagers, as a blue plaque, designed and made at Grayshott Pottery, is due to be unveiled at her 'one time place of work' in Crossways Road, Grayshott.

This follows in the wake of success for local writer and historian, Jo Smith whose play, called 'Flora's Heatherley', was performed around local towns and villages and the BBC's recent screening of 'From Larkrise to Candleford' which has received much acclaim.

For the village of Grayshott, this is the fourth pottery plaque that the Grayshott Society has commissioned under the direction of Phil Bates, Vice Chairman.

Flora who is most famous for her books 'Heatherley' and 'Lark Rise to Candleford', moved to the Grayshott area around 1898, when she was given the job to train local post office workers on the first telegraph system (sending telegrams) at the Old Post Office in Grayshott. The post office at this time was not in its current location but several shops down, at the site of 'Amity' fashion shop in Crossways Road.

Other famous authors at the time would have included the likes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Undershaw) and George Bernard Shaw (Blen-Cathra now St Edmund's School) who lived within minutes of Grayshott and were said to have used the newly installed system, to communicate with friends and colleagues in London and other modern areas of the time!

The unveiling is due to take place at 12 noon on Saturday 2nd May 2009.