A DALES community will be caught on camera and placed in the history books as part of the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations.

Every building in Middleton-in-Teesdale will be photographed and recorded in a book being produced to mark the jubilee.

The Teesdale Heritage Group will run the project, which forms part of the North Pennines Township Project, and was started in Alston, Cumbria, in 1999.

Teesdale Heritage has secured funding for the project from the Northern Rock Foundation, Awards for All Heritage Lottery and the tourism and environment department at Teesdale District Council.

The scheme is aimed at local residents interested in history, students doing project work on their home area and anyone researching local architecture and economics.

It should provide a comprehensive picture of how Middleton-in-Teesdale looks now, and how local people feel it will change in the future.

The parish council has backed the idea, and members are expected to be involved in the recording of the project, which will be filmed between May and September.

Extra help will be provided by pupils at Middleton-in-Teesdale Primary School and students at Teesdale Comprehensive School, who will be using the study to include in their project work.

There will also be input from professional computer experts, who will provide valuable information technology skills and will help to set up a website devoted to the book.

A public meeting will be held to launch the project, in the village hall, on Friday, April 19, at 7.30pm.

The meeting is being held in a bid to recruit more volunteers to take part in the initiative.

Volunteers will be asked to take part in the recordings.

Meetings to monitor the progress of the project will be held at least once a week.