FREE Issue 33 October 2020 YOUR LOCAL News from The Bookcase - More PHOTOGRAPHY than just a bookshop ON PAGE 3 70 Calverton Road, Arnold, NG5 8FR Made Your Will Yet? Your Will in the Privacy and Comfort of your Own Home. £49.95 + VAT (£59.94) Photo competition Phone Today for FREE INFO PACK winner 0115 871 2755 Calverton Swimming Pool 24 hours / 7 days a week reopens following £50K Lasting Power of Attorney • Protective refurbishment Property Trusts • Inheritance Tax Wills • Children’s Trusts Another housing estate to WILLS AT HOME be built in Calverton Preparing wills for over 15 years in this area The Bookcase in Lowdham have begun filming exciting interviews Halloween doesn’t have to Members of the Institute of MEMB E R Professional Will Writers available to watch on Youtube, first up is Catharine Arnold as she talks be cancelled about her new book ‘Pandemic 1918’. 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Monthly Facts Become a Local The end of September – early News distributor October is synonymous in The Local News is looking Nottingham for the time of Goose for distributors to deliver our Fair, but sadly this year it has been newspapers to the local area. cancelled on what would have been its 756th installment (or thereabouts). We currently have vacancies in... Calverton swimming pool Another housing estate to be The Goose Fair is one of Europe’s • Lowdham reopens after £50K refurbishment built in Calverton largest travelling fairs, dating back Page 6 Page 8 more than 700 years. We offer flexible working hours and Its rumoured that the fair received fantastic rates of pay. If you love its name from the original tradition the outdoors or need some extra of trading animals, specifically lots money then this is the job for you. of geese. 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The first is with acclaimed you wish to make a donation to this exciting introduction of Youtube local author and historian, Catharine wonderful local charity. interviews: Arnold, who is talking about her Join our mailing list to keep book Pandemic 1918 – if ever there We have lots to report from The up with details of all this and was a time to read this fascinating Bookcase this month! We have more by emailing janestreeter@ book it is right now! Other online extended our opening hours and thebookcase.co.uk interviews to follow will be with are now open 9am – 4pm Monday local writers/journalists Mike Wilson The Bookcase, 50 Main Street, to Friday, and 10am – 1pm on talking about Poet Laureates, Neil Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BE Saturdays.