Village News & Notices

A JOB WELL DONE

After many years of having a front fence which in parts was being held up with string, we now have a new oak fence and gates which replaced those originally installed in 1903 at a cost of £14. 4s. 2d. The overall project to provide a like-for-like fence cost in excess of £10, 000 but was assisted by generous contributions from the Norman Dawson Trust, the late Miss Perry, Churchill and Blakedown Parish Council, who funded the wood for the gates, the skilled craftsmanship of Brian Tait, who made the gates and hung them, and last, but not least, the installation by Matthew Allcock, who has struggled through storms, illnesses and the removal of old fencing debris put down over a hundred years.

Our thanks to them all for a job well done and which will be commemorated by a suitably engraved gate plaque in the Spring.