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June 2015 www.frodshamlife.co.uk 1 2 www.frodshamlife.co.uk June 2015 Editor Gary Skentelbery Production Paul Walker Editor’s Comment Advertising IF the Frodsham Town Council elections proved anything it is fellow councillors for the hard work James Balme that the electorate is unpredictable – and can be very unkind. they put in for the local community FreephoneNick White Among the more surprising results maintenance and the most noticeable and also said how honoured and 0800Tony Record 955 5247 were the defeats suffered by long- difference after she relinquished privileged he had been to be Mayor Freephone serving councillor Pammi Taylor and control was that things went wrong of Frodsham – a “fantastic place to 0800Editorial 955 5247 the Mayor, Allen Wales. Surprising more often! live.” Editorial01925 623631 for different reasons, but surprising Allen Wales could not claim Pammi and Allen were both 01925Email 623631 none-the-less. a similar length of service on the members of the council’s World War [email protected] Pammi Taylor had been a member council. In fact, he was never actually One Commemoration Group and Email of the council for 12 years and no elected, having been co-opted to fill we are pleased to note that as they info@warrington-Websites councillor in that period has worked a vacancy that occurred mid-term. are both to continue as volunteer worldwide.co.ukwww.culchethlife.com harder for the local community than But he proved to be an excellent members, their experience will not Websiteswww.frodshamlife.co.uk she did. She was a stickler for things councillor and stepped in to take on be lost. www.culchethlife.comwww.lymmlife.co.uk being done properly and spent many the role of Mayor at a time when no- The new council is very different www.frodshamlife.co.ukwww.warrington.tv hours making sure they were. In the one else really seemed to want the to the old. Half its members are new www.lymmlife.co.ukwww.warrington- days before the council’s website job. and many will be inexperienced. www.warrington.tvworldwide.co.uk was handed over to “experts” As his successor has already Several people have already www.warrington-Address she was largely responsible for its pointed out, he fulfilled the role in a expressed the hope that its members worldwide.co.ukNew Media Centre quiet and dignified way. will work together, co-operatively When the electors rejected him, and in harmony, for the good of AddressOld Road Warrington WA4 1AT he displayed no rancour but took Frodsham. New Media Centre advantage of his last official duty We echo that sentiment – but the Old Road Warrington as Mayor to praise council staff and jury is still out. WA4 1AT Get online ANYONE who is still wondering what’s so important about getting warrington-worldwideFrodsham Life is is online can do so at Frodsham Library published monthly by on Friday mornings. Orbit News Ltd. Special sessions are being run The contents of this magazine between 10am and 12 noon for are fully protected by copyright people who want to learn how to use and nothing may be reprinted the internet. or reproduced without prior The free drop-in sessions offer permission of the publishers. guidance on how to improve The publishers are not liable for computer and internet skills with any statement made or opinion special emphasis on the basics expressed by third parties in this for people who have no previous publication. experience. Printed by TwentyFourSeven More details can be obtained from the library, in Princeway, on 01244 977345. TOWNFIELD LANE PLAY AREA IMPROVEMENT PLANS Following initial face to face consultations with residents, and ideas expressed to us, Frodsham Town Council now wants to proceed with the much needed and overdue facelift for Townfield Lane Play Area. We have come up with this first draft sketch plan of the improvements. The scheme includes a timber climbing frame, hexagonal frame swings, zip wire and a fenced off toddler area with trampoline, spinning bowl and climbing frame & slide. Also included are improvements to the pathways, a football pitch and picnic benches. Larger copies can be viewed at FTC’s office in Castle Park House Monday to Friday 9am to 1pm. Comments are welcome from all townspeople by 6th July to: Hazel Catt - Service Manager Frodsham Town Council, Castle Park House, Castle Park, Frodsham, WA6 6SB or email [email protected] June 2015 www.frodshamlife.co.uk 3 Council chairman elected for fourth term CLLR Mark Warren has been re-elected for a fourth year as chairman of Frodsham Town Council. He was elected at the annual should be an orderly transition. meeting of the council – but only “I would like the council to accept after Cllr Frank Pennington had this as a transitional measure,” he proposed that newly-elected Cllr said. Tom Reynolds be elected chairman. Cllr Pennington said it was a new council which should move in a new direction. Cllr Warren had been chairman for three years and he believed it was time for a new chairman to take the council in a new direction. Cllr Alan Oulton seconded the proposal – but it was put to the meeting and failed to find further support. After being re-elected, Cllr Warren said he regarded his appointment as a transitional measure. He had never intended to remain chairman for so long but he was aware that half the council now consisted of new members and believed it was important that there Cllr Mark Warren. Website moved after cyber attacks FRODSHAM Town Council has changed its internet service provider following a series of cyber attacks on its website. Chairman Cllr Mark Warren told the council’s annual meeting the site had been attacked three times when it was provided by the original provider. “Basically, our firewalls were not strong enough,” he said. “We have now switched to a local firm who we believe will be able to do a good job for Frodsham.” 4 www.frodshamlife.co.uk June 2015 Gardens to open for caring charities MANY of the most beautiful gardens in Cheshire will be open 28, 12 noon until 5pm: A two hut and poly tunnel. Year round to the public this summer as part of the National Gardens acre organic, wildlife friendly, gold interest. Admission: £4, children Scheme. award winning cottage garden. free. Home-made teas. Home This offers an opportunity for Features orchard, wildlife ponds, grown organic fruits used in jams Cobbled drive and courtyard. wildflower meadow, fruit and veg & cakes. people to visit showpiece gardens Gravel paths. Admission: £4, – and also raises money for charity. areas, badger sett, rose pergola, Since 1927, the National children free. Home-made teas. The gardens range in size from gazebo, summer house, barn owl Gardens Scheme has raised more the big publicly owned gardens, Clemley House, Duddon and many other nest boxes, gravel than £45 million for nursing and such as Tatton Park, Dunham Common, Tarporley, Sunday June and shade gardens, shepherd’s caring charities. Massey Hall and Norton Priory Gardens, to privately owned gardens, often of modest size. Among local gardens to open are: Manley Knoll, (pictured) Manley Road, Manley on Sunday June 21 from 12 noon to 5pm: This six acre gardens was created in the early 1900s and is divided into different “rooms” encompassing parterres, clipped yew hedging and ornamental ponds. Banks of rhododendron and azaleas frame a far-reaching view of the Cheshire Plain. There is also a magical quarry/folly garden with a waterfall. Admission: £3.50, children free. Home-made teas. Bowmere Cottage, Bowmere Road, Tarporley, on Sunday, June 21 from 1.30pm to 5.30pm: A mature 1-acre country style garden around a Grade ll listed house (not open). Mixed shrub and herbaceous borders, pergolas, two plant filled courtyard gardens and small kitchen garden. Shrub and rambling roses, clematis, hardy geraniums and a wide and colourful range of plants make this a very traditional English garden. June 2015 www.frodshamlife.co.uk 5 6 www.frodshamlife.co.uk June 2015 Service with a Smile from a local lad made good WHAT started out as work experience with a local plumber down to the finest detail of making Rory believes, is the size of the has flourished into a thriving business for Rory Woodhouse. sure sockets are all level and pipes business ‘We are large enough Now eight years on from running a small business. I started are square. A lot of our customers to offer a range of services and launching Woodhouse Rory has Woodhouse Plumbing with myself request and know our engineers by undertake larger jobs but small 13 employees, which he believes and one apprentice. Since then first name. More than 85% of our enough for me to ensure we offer is the perfect number - big enough the company has steadily grown work comes from recommendation the personal touch. to cope with large jobs, but small and after three years we obtained and regular customers. Having “Our location at the Frodsham recently celebrated my 30th enough to retain the personal NIC-EIC electrical certification and Business Centre is central to the birthday I am proud of what I have touch. Rory, who operates out of now have three full time electricians local community and our workforce the Frodsham Business centre said: working for us offering the complete achieved, the experience I have gained and most importantly what live in the local area. “When I was 15 I completed work plumbing heating and electrical Rory concluded: “We are a very experience with local plumber package.” I have been able to establish in the local community in terms of a close team at Woodhouse and we Kevin Ball.