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Long-Established Shoe Businesses Lace up Deal 29th July 2017 www.nenevalleynews.co.uk facebook.com/NeneValleyNews @NeneValleyNews Telephone: 01522 513515 We want to hear from you, so please submit your news story or event at NeneYour local independent community Valley www.nenevalleynews.co.uk newspaper for East Northamptonshire news Spotlight on Nene Valley In Brief Weddings Business Applicants News invited for education grant arson Latham’s Educational Inside... Page 4 Page 9 PFoundation seeks to support the further education of young people by awarding a grant to those who may be beginning an Long-established shoe apprenticeship, vocational training or starting university/college. Applicants must be businesses lace up deal resident in the parish of Oundle and must have and part-time members of staff have old-established independent shoe Two businesses with a combined history of almost attended a state school been taken on as part of the deal. shops should be coming together in in Oundle for no less 300 years have completed a takeover deal. Managing Director Anne Cotton, this way.” than two years. For more the fourth generation at the head of James North, the fifth generation information visit www. R C Cotton and Sons Ltd, said: “I will at the helm of Bourne-based North parsonlathamscharity.org. ottons of Oundle – a family whose own roots go back to 1876. be sad to see the business go out of Shoes, said: “I am absolutely uk shoe firm dating back to Cottons, based at 7 Market Place, the family but my father, Stuart, and delighted to have acquired Cottons C1871 – has been bought by Oundle, will trade as North Shoes I recognise this is the right time for it of Oundle. We have looked at it Village Tidy Lincolnshire-based North Shoes, from the end of July and all six full to happen. for some time. It is the right fit for Up Day “We are a stand-alone us – a lovely, independent, long- ittle Addington independent shoe shop in a small established shoe business in a recently held its but vibrant market town with a lovely market town. annual Village Tidy thriving business, amazing staff “We want to carry on offering L Up Day when residents of and hugely loyal customers. James what they have been offering as a all ages came together for North approached me about buying quality family concern, including the 1½ hours to litter pick. They the business — we wouldn’t have links with Oundle School. We will accumulated 13 bin bags sold to just anybody. continue to sell all of the brands they of rubbish, the majority of “It feels right to hand it over to have offered and maintain the same which was collected on the someone like James, whom I have high quality level of service, bringing Irthlingborough Road – a known for some time. I know he the Society of Shoe Fitters expertise distance of less than one shares my ideas about business. to the business.” mile. “We could have kept running The deal increases the North Motorists and walkers the shop and then one day closed, Shoes stable to five shops, with are reminded to dispose of but this way the town is going stores also in Peterborough, their rubbish responsibly. to be assured of a good quality Stamford, Bourne and Cambridge, Please either use the litter independent shoe shop for many and James revealed: “We’re always bins provided in the village years to come. looking for more shops – so, if the or take your rubbish home. “It’s amazing that two such right fit comes along...” Give your child the perfect start Give your child the perfect start in a schoolGive your where child smallthe perfect class start sizes meanin a schoolin individual a school where where attention. small small class class sizes sizes meanmean individual individual attention. attention. AN INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL IN KETTERING AN INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL IN KETTERING AN INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL IN KETTERING AN INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL IN KETTERING For moreFor information more information contact: contact: 01536 01536 512 512 066 066 [email protected] [email protected] information contact: 01536 www.st-peters.org.uk 512 www.st-peters.org.uk 066 [email protected] www.st-peters.org.uk 02 To submit your news story or event visit www.nenevalleynews.co.uk or call 01522 513515 29/07/17 Wildlife news Editor’s notes oving house is one of the most more building risked driving away even more stressful experiences affecting our wildlife. But the river Nene came to the rescue, s we move into trade with largely the same who contribute on a daily Mlives, and recent personal experience helped by a number of volunteers, and the the peak summer delightful staff albeit under or weekly basis throughout has shown that if the change also involves geology of the land presented a series of Aholiday period there different ownership. the year, running clubs and returning to the area of your birth the whole holes which filled with water to leave a chain is usually a reduction in the Visits to various locations societies or supporting the thing can be even more dramatic. Nothing ever of lakes along what historically was seen as a number of items submitted around the District continue community in some other looks quite the same as we remember, and if ‘highway’ for waterfowl heading cross-country, to the Nene Valley News, to illustrate the debt we way. A big “thank you” to there has been any major development in the often leading towards the estuary of the river and there is still time for owe to the huge number all of you. area it can look almost like a foreign country. Severn, where the wildfowl refuge was created that tailing off to occur, of volunteers doing great At Nene Valley News we The same must be true of wildlife when any by the late Sir Peter Scott. This chain has now but this edition is as full as things for the benefit of like to think that we are form of upset occurs, which is why we try to become known as the ‘Nene Wetlands’, with ever. local communities. Some doing our bit to support avoid, for example, disturbing birds on nests some sections also being a series of ‘Lakes Our article on the Nene take it upon themselves communication within in case they should move out, leaving behind and Meadows’, where before it was primarily Valley Festival illustrates to do things which really the District and providing eggs or even, in the worst case, young ones. just meadows, and then not always of the best that there are plenty of shouldn’t need to be done, opportunities for local Among the many changes in our area in quality for livestock. We have been left with a attractions still to come at least not to such a great people and organisations the past quarter of a century or so, one of the wonderful range of wildlife ‘on our doorstep’. in the District and in extent, like those in Little to get their messages most significant for the plants and animals Our ‘own’ river Nene is giving us a chance his regular article East Addington who went out across to those who need was the extraction of materials such as gravel to broaden our knowledge of a whole range Northants Council Leader to collect litter. Others take to know. In pursuit of this and iron ore. Green fields disappeared under of species, a chance not always available so Steven North continues to the opportunity to improve aim, we are looking in the impact of heavy machinery, and valuable close at hand. highlight the fact that we things for their fellow particular for contributors and important land could have vanished as Roy Burrell have a great many ‘hidden parishioners; in this latter who organise sporting gems’ locally which are category, we can count activities. It can be any worth exploring. So, if the folk in Kings Cliffe who sport but we would prefer you’re not going away on have got themselves a to hear from those who Genealogy jottings holiday there is plenty to remarkable sports facility run leagues or other with plans for more still competitions, thus allowing ow’s the research going? Have you do in this area. By Jan Pearson to come. Elsewhere, the us to print more general started yet? Living with my Gran from On the retail front, a Genealogy Specialists, Tracing Our Past, festivals and entertainment interest articles rather than the day that I was born and having range of outlets are to H Discovering Our Genes (TOP DOG) open at the Rushden Lakes events that have become ones relating to a specific her spark my interest, I cannot remember a www.genealogy-specialists.com commonplace wouldn’t club or team. If you believe time when I was not following it. However, development this weekend happen without the efforts you have something of what has – or will – pique your curiosity? and, on a somewhat of the army of volunteers interest to offer and want The nice thing about researching your family idea of the type of accommodation in which smaller scale, it’s good who organise and manage our readers to hear about history is that you don’t have to know a the chap and his family once lived. to see that Oundle’s own them. Then there are those it, then do get in touch. great deal to get started. A certain amount If you are new to research, you might wish shoe shop is to continue to of nosiness… erm… curiosity does help, to consider taking a local college course to though! I was assisting someone in the develop your skills – there are also online Oundle Library the other day (I am there courses available.
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