5100 delivered FREE to homes and businesses in Rothley & Mountsorrel
• Bathrooms • Showers • Tiles • Kitchens
BATHROOM SUPPLY & FIT
0 N TI TH IN AT 250 AR ON O W ON H £ S ST T M NCE TCEPTI WORT ETAIL X A E L D NE UR CH ING R HOTE ORE M YO EDD TRY OR F N A W OU GE 7 C N PA OR EE QU S
LOCAL
G
r u yo
May 2014
Mountsorrel Townswomen’s Guild Ladies up and down the country dressed up in their finery for a Big Birthday Party to celebrate 85 years of the Guild throughout Britain; our photo shows the Mountsorrel group in their posh hats, the Buffett supper was lovely too! A special Birthday cake was made by Mary Neal one of our guilders. Learning the Art of quilling and decoupage for making cards was our 1st of May meeting. Later that month Sandy Leong gave us a very interesting talk on the history and meanings of ‘Nursery Rhymes’ which aren’t as innocent as we all thought, some have very dark meanings. Nursery rhymes have been passed down through generations.
FROM
£2995
ST.MARGARETS WAY LEICESTER LE1 3EA
ENTRANCE AT ST. MARGARETS PASTURES
0116 2622630 FAST CASH OFFER SELL YOUR HOUSE / LAND
FAST MOVE FAST COMPLETION
07980265077
If you are interested in any of our topics, please come and join us, we meet in the Parish Rooms, Leicester Road Mountsorrel at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday evening. You would be made most welcome.
Community Heritage Centre closes in on its fund-raising target It is beginning to look as though the proposed community heritage centre for Rothley and Mountsorrel will be able to start by mid-summer, providing the final £24,000 of funding is forthcoming. There remains planning permission to be obtained and this should be applied for this month. As part of the Public Consultation process for the planning application, Open Days were held on March 22nd and March 29th with guided tours starting at the Swithland Lane entrance. The Open Days attracted over 350 visitors and there was universal praise for what has already been achieved with the Mountsorrel Railway and Nunckley Nature Trail alongside, and what is planned with the Heritage Centre. The other outstanding hurdle is to raise the balance of funds required to release a £540,000 grant from Lafarge Tarmac’s Landfill Communities Fund. It was a condition of the grant that an additional £56,000 be raised in matched funding. As of the 12th May the halfway mark had been passed with some £32,000 collected. The latest major contribution has been £5,000 from the Rothley-based Harry Hames Cottage Charity, which is administered by Rothley Parish Council.
Project leader Steve Cramp commented “The response from the public has been tremendous. We are now within £24,000 of the target we need to get work started. It is, however, vital that we achieve this sooner rather than later. The whole project, as a condition of the major grant, must be completed by July next year but we have two old granite buildings to dismantle and reconstruct stone by stone as part of the heritage centre. This will be a tough ask but is very much doable if we can start early enough. To help raise this figure a “Brick Appeal” has been launched where you can sponsor the bricks that will be used to combine, into one unified building, the different structures that form the core of the Heritage Centre. The names of sponsors will appear on a large commemorative plaque that will feature in the tearoom at the Centre. The price of sponsoring an individual brick has been set at £50. We will, of course, be grateful for donations of any size!” If you want to follow progress on the Mountsorrel Railway and the Heritage Centre go to http://www.heritage-centre.co.uk. And if you want to make a donation to the Heritage Centre appeal then send a cheque to the David Clarke Railway Trust, c/o 112 Balmoral Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire LE12 7EW (and write ‘Heritage Centre’ on the back of the cheque.)