Who else has an Anderson Shelter? We have. My husband and I moved to Cofton Hackett in 1963 and soon started work on our rear garden backing on to Cofton Lake.
Now that better weather should be on the way, may I remind everyone of the new facility now available in the development known now as the Black Paddock.
In response to the article discussing road calming measures through the village, I agree that the measures in place seem unmanageable and rather inappropriate to the degree it is evident that motorists do not see it as a hindrance.
As a resident, I support your general call for diversion of through traffic to the bypass. I think first that we should all acknowledge that the bypass has removed most of the heavy trucks and lorries from the village, and in this regard it has succeeded.
Drinkers were treated to a tempting range of beers from the Black Country at the Spring Beer Festival at The Coach & Horses, at Weatheroak, near Alvechurch.
Mick Roscoe, of Blackwell-based Hawksbury Landscapes, shows how their trial run with a novel plastic grid has transformed a stretch of the village’s muddy Elephant Alley into a wheelchair-accessible path.