VOLUNTEERS are hoping to set up a heritage centre in Marlow nearly eight years after the project was first mooted and rejected.

People interested in setting up the centre, including the mayor of Marlow, Cllr Maurice Oram, were due to attend a vital meeting yesterday at Liston Hall, Marlow.

John Evans, one of the organisers of the meeting, said: "The Marlow Society is responsible for the genesis of this.

"They did a feasibility study in 1993 and they then thought the project was beyond them.

"At the time it was hoped that we would get Millennium Commission money but the swimming pool project was suggested.

"When the swimming pool idea died we decided to start it up again."

He added: "People do support it. People think that a community that forgets its past has no future, as Churchill said."