The Avon Works Archive Project began when former Avon Rubber workers donated memorabilia and photos connected with the factory, and began to write about their workplace memories, following a meeting organised by Jim Lynch in April 2015.

‘Remembering The Avon’ filmed by Positive Images, a local charitable trust with a national reputation for its social documentaries, included interviews and reminiscences by more than 30 former Avon factory workers.

Film maker Will Sansom spent 18 months following the Iron Duke's restoration process. By interviewing retired workers and speaking to local historians he began to understand the vast significance of the rubber works and their role in global industrialisation.

One of the four community engagement projects associated with the return of the Iron Duke aimed to recreate the essence of the Avon Rubber in-house newspaper, Avon News, with the help of students from Bradford on Avon’s St Laurence School.

Saturday 22nd April 2017 witnessed an extraordinary event at St Margaret’s Hall. What made it so unique was the way in which it straddled the past, present and future, not only through the events it chronicled and the ideas it expressed, but also the generations that took part.