In January 2020 photographer Dave Higgleton and journalist/author Valerie Herbert began recording a snapshot of the year for posterity. The idea was to record changes and events in the town that could ultimately be added to the Sudbury Photo Archive. The project was a labour of love for the two who had both retired after a working lifetime in newspapers. At the time they had no idea that Sudbury 2020 project would soon become the Year of Covid, a year that will no doubt be writ large in the history of the world.