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Nailsworth News Team in George Street for Damaged One That We’Ve Been Photographer: Martin Stone Creating the Wonderful on About in Recent Issues April 2014 Nailsworth No. 140 News A free monthly community paper for the parish of Nailsworth, “Happy Chocoholic available in colour on our website Day” www.nailsworthnews.org.uk Or do you mean “Happy Easter”? What a pity that yet another Christian Festival has been taken Beaudesert Park School over by commercialism. ‘Edible Art’. The roots of the name Easter come from the old English / pagan See page 10 Eostre for a spring festival celebrating new birth and new life after the cold and death of the past winter. It just so happened to coincide with the Passover of the Jewish faith and when Christianity hit these shores, the name stuck. At least the Anglo-Saxons wouldn’t be deprived of one of their more important festivals! Easter bunnies and chicks along with Easter eggs are all symbolic of the season of new birth - hence the time that Christians celebrate the ‘new birth’ of Jesus at the Resurrection. When one buys Easter Eggs this year, just spare a thought for what Easter really means and celebrates - it is not complicated and it won’t cost you an arm and a leg like the chocolate does! ‘Nailsworth in the Top 101... according to a recent Sunday Times article (16 March 2014). We often wonder who contributes to such polls, but Nailsworth is rated so highly because of the ‘posh grub’, William’s, £1m houses in the centre of town, no parking fees ... There is so much more to Nailsworth than just this list and how shortsighted the ST editor must be to list this nonsense, without paying a personal visit and see why we know Nailsworth should be in the TOP TEN places to live! This town is rather special for so many more (serious) reasons than posh food etc. It is not a ‘twee’ Cotswold town and doesn’t pretend to be. It has light industry, popular shops (always with a waiting list for newcomers), places to eat and drink, loads of sports facilities to suit every taste, fabulous countryside, a diverse set of people with diverse interests, places of worship, great schools (independent, private and state), history through the centuries, tourists, and the list just goes on. Yes, it does have its problems, but then any community does, and we in Nailsworth are fortunate to have a Town Council, and other bodies, who do try to maintain the workings of the town, whether we believe it or not! People come here to “work, rest and play”, not for the poshness, not the free parking, not the upmarket shops (whatever that means), but because it has a unique working and friendly feel that suits so many. I for one, would rather work and live here, than in some picture-box entity where the majority of contact is with people on holiday and behind a camera! (MS) What is this? It is a QR Code: MonacoBeach.co.uk with the correct app on a smartphone, scan this and it will take Fabulous cruise and you to our website! Swimwear for smart women See our website for the famous Tree Surgery ‘Drop 10lbs in 10 seconds’ Miraclesuits & Felling Tel 07503 416383 1 Local News hank you, thank you ongratulations Twhoever! We now have Free monthly newspaper for to ‘Enchanted a spanking new litter bin in Nailsworth parish CChildhood’ Old Market replacing the Published by the Nailsworth News team in George Street for damaged one that we’ve been Photographer: Martin Stone creating the wonderful on about in recent issues. A Production: Leopard Press flower troughs outside small, greenish, niggle: was Editor: Gail Jones 07758 882528, the shop - the facade the old one really beyond [email protected] repair? or c/o Town Information Centre of the building is Asst. & Sports Editor: Martin Stone 833132, transformed - a [email protected] delight! NIGGLESWORTH Business Editor: Bill Affleck 832619, I don’t know who is [email protected] responsible for the long stay Advertising: Tracey Clements 872299, car park in Nailsworth, but [email protected] why do they allow people Treasurer: David Cox 836119, to park illegally next to [email protected] Avening Barn Centre Spread Editor: Carole de Lacroix, the yellow grit box? Last [email protected] Hazel Redding adds, “Your Saturday a big black car Youth Editor: Eilidh Houghton picture of the barn (March parked there and blocked in [email protected] issue) along the Avening Road my car so that I had a terrible Payment & Hard Copy Correspondence: c/o Shiny brought back a memory as we job getting out. Would double Goodness, Fountain St. always called this ‘Tramps Hotel’. In the l960s, yellow lines help? People can Distribution: Don Luke 832812, any passing tramp would pop in for a night’s be so inconsiderate - anon [email protected] stay! (What has happened to all those tramps, What’s On: Jemma Kilyon, with their billy cans carried behind them?) [email protected] his year marks the thirtieth IT: Jonathan Duckworth The barn was also very near the gas holder. My Tin which the Passage to Editorial Support: Joyce Affleck father Jack Perry, would go down on a Sunday India has been setting the Postal subscriptions at £8 per year: morning in the l950s to check it was running Veronica Luke 832812 standard for Indian cuisine in alright, on his BSA Bantam with me hanging on Nailsworth. Advertising rates: £5 + £13 per unit of 60 x 30 mm the back.” (w x h): Over twenty years ago, when • Larger than 3 units only if space permits we were house hunting in • £1 discount per unit for three insertions if booked and paid in advance the area, a Sunday lunch in the Passage • £5 surcharge for a specific page with food and wonderfully friendly and Space is limited and Nailsworth advertisers take courteous staff convinced us we’d found the right town. priority. Payment in advance please: cheques to An opportunity for Residents to come and hear Nailsworth News. reports from the town’s Groups and Organisations, From May 1st, the Passage will no Advertisements are accepted at these rates on and to question Councillors. the basis that they can be incorporated into the longer sell alcoholic drinks, so if you finished paper without modification. This implies a really value your glass of Cobra with typographic quality standard. If your advert doesn’t your biryani, April will be your last meet this standard you’ll be asked to resubmit an chance. BA ‘improved’ version. Alternatively the Nailsworth News team can provide design assistance in which case a surcharge will be applied to the cost of the advertisement. Which ever course you choose the advert must be available to the editor by the copy deadline. Deadline for advertising, copy and payment: 10th of the month (there is no paper in January or August). Deadline for articles to the Editor: 15th of the month. Copyright notice: photographs in this paper are either submitted by residents / businesses, archive material, Want a Warmer Home? or taken by Martin Stone or other team members. The person who took the photograph retains all rights in it. If you would like a copy of one, please contact the There’s still time for winter thermals! Editor who will put you in touch with the appropriate person; it is their decision whether (and how much) Thermal imaging surveys Advice, to charge. from £45 help diagnose Solutions draughts, damp and & Quotes insulation problems. Check out what our Dave Sophie Thinking of moving? clients have to say 07899 07850 Leaded Windows Is your home ready? about us at: 977136 317041 Specialist in the repair and restoration of stained and decorative glass and leaded light windows Call Kim Rowden for help and advice with presentation, decluttering, and organising, to In situ repairs to doors and windows in the home enable you to achieve the best selling price WWW.FUTUREPROOFERS.CO.UK [email protected] 07980 776283 / 01453 861560 email: [email protected] www.cluttercruncher.co.uk 01453 860733 07929927381 www.imogenbrereton.co.uk Local home insulation specialists Views expressed in this paper are those of the author and not necessarily those of the Nailsworth News team. We reserve the right to edit or omit any material submitted for publication. No liability is accepted for loss or damage arising from any omission of copy or advertising. Material submitted for publication will only be returned if accompanied by a SAE. Nailsworth News is published and distributed entirely by volunteers, with production costs defrayed by advertising. More volunteers are always welcome - if you would like to join the team, please get in touch with the Editor. 2 Myles Robinson, Mayor of Nailsworth Local Affairs Your Council has been Mortimer Gardens. The Town invited to comment on Council will be providing some new plants and will pay for the system of voting the skip to remove unwanted specimens, but once again I am for Stroud District extremely grateful for the voluntary help we receive. Council elections, as the I am delighted to hear of the transformation of the former Boundary Commission Crystal Fountain complex of some 60 retirement homes at is considering changes Inchbrook into Woodchester Valley Village. Legal problems in 2016. At present which proved a huge disincentive to buy or lease homes have there is one County been expertly overcome and the project appears to have a Councillor and three bright future. With the freehold ownership now entrusted to District Councillors the residents and their families, I expect this mutual project representing Nailsworth to to quickly attract many new residents to our community.
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