Thursday, March 28, 2024

Monthly Archives: March, 2005

Another Anderson

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.

Make use of this public space

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.

A few suggestions

So, what makes Alvechurch unique in the problems it experiences with excessive and fast vehicles in the village? My guess is absolutely nothing.

Speeders not sufficiently hindered

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.

Cameras are only solution

I do so agree that there is a great need to cut down the speed and amount of traffic going through our village.

Calming thoughts

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.

Here for the beer

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.

Alley is now accessible

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.

Better late than never!

Some things take time, others a little longer . . . but at last Ted Figgett, of Station Road, Alvechurch, has received his Canal Zone medal.

Residents remain in ‘Barnt Green’

Lickey residents who feared they were to lose their cherished “Barnt Green” postal address have been given a reprieve.