The Village

I would like to say thank you to the very kind tractor driver who cleared snow from Snake Lane, Alvechurch.

When my father passed away last year he left instructions that he would like a bench installed on the canal in memory of him and my late mother.

Following your article in the July/August edition about Bromsgrove Rural Rides, I would just like to add a few comments as a volunteer driver in the hope of encouraging others to join us.

On a September Saturday evening in 1997, as the warmth of the sunny afternoon was replaced by an early autumn chill, hundreds of villagers gathered in Withybed Green, Alvechurch.

Do any of your readers know where the late actress, Margaret Leighton, used to reside in Barnt Green?

How right is Alison Hitchins in her letter ‘Tradesmen blocking our paths with vans’ (The Village March 2014).

Re: The Square, Alvechurch – “Village Eyesore”: It may be helpful to your readers to have a clearer picture relating to the past, present and future of The Square than has so far been expressed by the article in your June issue.

I find the comments of Councillor Hollingworth, on the Arrow Valley development, a bit rich when you consider the lack of or, at the most, the very tepid support the residents of Hopwood had from both him and the Bromsgrove MP Julie Kirkbride in our battle to protect the local environment.

It was so interesting to read about “Our German gentle men” (The Village, September 2017). I, too, lived near the POW camp in Groveley Lane, Cofton Hackett.