BATCOMBE
REP & DISTRIBUTOR: Johnny Gibbs jg@intramar.co.uk 83187
Photo: Emma Shelford
Spring is on its way to the valley. The bluebells are pushing through and primroses are beginning to appear in the woods and hedgerows.
Bolster the Beams (BtB) The campaign continues. A huge thanks to Andrew Graham and Paul Attwell who organised the Quiz Night at Leigh Village Hall on 18 February. I’m sure it will have been a fun evening. If you are yet to donate to help us secure the future of our beautiful church, please email our treasurer, Julie Gibbs (julie.m.gibbs@ googlemail.com. On a more general note, the BtB the campaign is going well, but we still need to raise more before we can begin the work to restore the Church beams.
New sign planned To complement the new sign at the bottom of Great Head Lane, a new sign is planned for the top of Stile Way. Most of the cost has been built into the High Stoy Parish council budget plans for 2022, 4
supported by an anonymous donor, and this will hopefully be in place soon.
Cable theft Last month, much of Batcombe suffered from over 10 days of disruption to their phone lines and computers. Vandals stole the cables from under the road between Holywell and Evershot. The copper wire is very valuable apparently. What is the world coming to?
