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Winter Newsletter No 65 - 2010 www.mortonvillage.org.uk Snow coming before Christmas, and same, the children capering around • ensure that prospective owners • unwelcome changes to canal area staying, lent a particularly seasonal and thoroughly enjoying themselves, are aware from the outset of the • the joining of Bingley to Crossflatts feel to the festive period. The frosty and finally singing at Heath Grove. It established recreational function and Micklethwaite evening of the 23rd December saw was then over to The Busfeild Arms, of the land, so helping to avoid any a large group of around seventy kindly hosting a pub full of cheery, future conflicts Noise from the Institute residents, including many children, cold, carol singers with very welcome If you have any objections to this Following a complaint by a gather around the Christmas tree on mulled wine and mince pies. This initiative moving forward, please let local resident about noise from the the Green to take part in carol singing. popular addition to the Christmas us know. Institute, it was agreed that hirers’ Musical accompaniment was provided calendar, singing carols around the attention should be drawn to the by Rev. Mike Cansdale on trombone, Christmas tree on the green, felt like Other news conditions of hire and emphasizing Jonathan Crossley on accordian and being part of a scene we are only used that the building should be vacated The best bit of news recently is Charlotte Crossley playing the flute to seeing on a Christmas card. by midnight. Abuse may debar future the WREN grant of £32,564, which, This cannot have been easy with It is hoped next autumn to hold a use. A recent hirer lost their bond together with the funding from Leeds/ fingers becoming numb with the cold day class to make lanterns to use at after leaving the rear of the Institute Bradford Airport and a grant from the very quickly and there was a general carol singing. These are made of tissue covered in litter. An appeal here for shifting around and stamping of feet, paper and willow canes and when lit, local councillors, has enabled the consideration to residents when but how much everyone appeared appear golden. Two feet is usually the refurbishment of the Institute due to hiring the building. to enjoy themselves! People called minimum size. The class would be for begin in mid February. Huge thanks Safer Routes to School out choices of carol from the sheet about 20 people, including children go to David Miller and Mick Craven provided and a good sound was over 8+, and there would be a cost for their efforts in achieving this. The Community Governor has made. After a while, everyone involved, depending upon take up. agreed to take this forward through processed up Back Lane through the We shall keep you informed. Greenhill Action Group the school. snow and further singing took place They have approached us for Deliveries on Waterside Fold at the top. On with careful slithering Best Kept Garden support in their aim to stop the Lately this had become a problem round to The Square for more of the building of 698 homes off Sty Lane, but three/four residents have recently competition Micklethwaite, it was agreed to offered to deliver 40/50 newsletters This will take place again this object citing – year – a reminder of how this works. each. This is a big help and it is • access, including the use of the Three gardens, first, second and hoped that future coverage of that swing bridge third, are judged to have maintained development will be undertaken by a standard and given pleasure • querying the need for that number local residents. throughout the spring and summer of homes when there is empty Thanks to Rhona Emmott for the season. Also, the same for pots, property in Bingley generous donation of 30 mugs to baskets and window boxes. • traffic implications including through the Institute - an additional item of There is a new judge this year, and East Morton whilst building takes refurbishment. we are grateful to the retiring judge place and whilst Micklethwaite Bridge Re-siting of the Post Box – sadly who enabled the competition to be is closed (six months scheduled) no progress here but we still have our held again after a gap of a few years. • pressure for school places teeth into that one! The Open Spaces Society Through the above organisation, we are in the early stages of looking into registering the Recreation Ground as a village green. Why do this? • secure permanent registration of the land as a village green • protect the land from development – it is an offence to build on a green or to interrupt its use or enjoyment by the public (Commons Act 2006) • secure the right of local people to enjoy the land for recreation • give it a new status as land for the community, to be valued and enjoyed Morton in Bloom - the 2010 Landing in East Morton: Campaign starts now….. Views from an incomer. It may have been cold and uninviting It was June last year that I no social connection with East outdoors recently, but spring is just moved here. I remember that the Morton itself other than, well, just around the corner, indeed it is only M neighbourhood looked bright and living here. I was enthralled when approximately eight weeks before our village o r om has its spring judging, in this our second year in t lo colourful in that month, and it I read the Morton Village Society’s on in B seemed clean too. Much of the booklet ‘East Morton: A Thousand the Yorkshire in Bloom village competition. colour was provided by flowers Years of History’. It helped me The wheels have been turning through the winter, with funding from in pots and hanging baskets, or in appreciate the village more and Keighley Town Council we have purchased a dozen wall baskets to affix near garden bedding. But it was these see it in a new light; that of a living the bus turnaround area, this will provide a splash of colour in that area. qualities that contributed to my evolving community across time. We aim to build on the wonderful foundation of last year by progressing to wanting to live here in the first It made me want to contribute in an even higher level this time around to a Silver Gilt Award. place: it had the feel of a village some small way, so I found myself Our group is a small but dedicated band, but we need more volunteers if we people cared about. I’m not just an contacting the Morton Village are to one day bring the coveted Gold award to East Morton. incomer to East Morton, but to West Society who I knew had made very We need volunteers who are not necessarily gardening experts, perhaps you Yorkshire too. I moved up from tangible efforts to make this village may be handy at DIY jobs such as fixing baskets to walls. Or you may be a good Hampshire just over a year ago. a good place to be, somewhere fund raiser, or fancy organising an event that we put on throughout the year, it could be a sponsored walk or a beetle drive, or any other idea you may have. I believe that how you see a where I wanted to live. However, Alternatively you may want to plant a few flowers or maybe even do some place depends on where you come for some reason I imagined that as weeding or litter picking on the “Green”. from in life, where you’ve been, an incomer of a few months I might During May we will be in desperate need of any spare bedding plants. We what you’ve experienced, what not be particularly encouraged in also need volunteers to adopt a basket to water during dry summer weather. All you are used to, and your interests, the Society. Imagination can be these jobs will all help us to make our village even nicer. circumstances and values. So by deceptive and I could not have way of declaration, I don’t have been more wrong. It was Mary Morton Village website children, I love open spaces, the Appleby who on learning about In the last newsletter I put out a request for someone to take over the village my relatively recent arrival in the great outdoors, natural history, and website , and I had two kind offers. So now Mark Barrett has taken over, I would village suggested I write in the the arts. I work in Leeds and quite like too see the website develop into one of the major focal points for the Society Newsletter. So there’s a often travel to London and other village, so if you have any events to publicise, any interesting stories/events to cities on business in the week. start, and somehow I know that tell us about, then please send them onto Mark. With the major refurbishment once all this harsh winter weather When I moved to West Yorkshire of the Institute shortly taking place, afterwards there will be much larger is over, I’ll be out there helping I first rented a Victorian cottage in ‘Institute’ presence, booking forms, availability of dates etc to bring back the flowers to East Riddlesden. It proved to be damp In time there will be an archive of old items, a ‘forum’ to discuss items. If you have Morton. and difficult to heat, so after a few any ideas of your own please get in touch with Mark or myself.

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