"The spring is the medium by which loads are lightened, shared, dispersed evenly and borne smoothly. The spring stretches to link two ends – the Past and the Future. The spring signifies earlier times – a big old rusty spring speaks of an important job of support for the farming community, in transport, early machinery or even an old chair when the day’s work is done. It’s a simple piece of equipment with so much potential. It works well individually but what a load it can carry when you put a few together. The NEW (North East Women) pioneers used it to ‘spring’ into the new millennium." Ann Jarvis