Barwick in Elmet area news with Ron Miller
Maypole Support: Generous villagers are already demonstrating their support for maintaining Barwick's proud Maypole tradition by making donations to 'Friends of the Pole,' an initiative launched by the village's Maypole Trust. More than £800 has so far been donated, an impressive figure in view of the fact that becoming a 'Friend of Barwick Maypole' costs just a fiver a year. "Not too much to ask to help ensure the survival of a tradition which has endured for hundred
Recipes Wanted: Barwick villagers are invited to provide a copy of a favourite recipe which can be added to a recipe book raising funds for the Maypole Trust. Recipes are being collected by local resident Jaki Hampshire and for just 1 you can have your favourite recipe – and your name – included.
“Many local people have tried and trusted recipes which others would enjoy preparing,” says Jaki.
Her book will go on sale later in the year. Recipes and donations should be sent to the Maypole Trust at the address in the previous news item.
Local Bus Services: Important public consultation meetings were being held in both Barwick and Scholes this week to discuss the future of local bus services.
Coun Alec Shelbrooke, a Member of Leeds City Council representing the Harewood ward, which includes Barwick and Scholes, was chairing a meeting in Barwick on Tuesday and another in Scholes on Wednesday. Villagers were to be told the results of a recent survey into what local people would prefer in terms of bus routes and schedules. Representatives of both Metro and First Bus were attending both meetings.
The main requirement of one local bus user, the wife of your Wetherby News correspondent, will no doubt be supported by many villagers: “I would just like the 64 to operate to a schedule people can rely upon, instead of not turning up, as it often fails to do.”
A report from both meetings will be published in next week’s Barwick and Scholes column.
New Artworks?: Mischievous speculation is mounting in Scholes that the eight metre high poles erected several weeks ago along Main Street and close to the Coronation Tree are not lighting columns but are, in fact, forms of ‘public art.’ If so, will they be seen as ‘non-illuminating examples of the modernist school of vertical sculpture from the controversial PFI period?’
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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