Hanging Baskets in Wimborne Road.

I am not a very happy person today. Your Conservative Councillors, Beverley, Ian and I have allocated money, from the Local Improvement fund, for hanging baskets in the main part of Wimborne road, now we are told that the posts all have to be stress tested. Well obviously we want everything to be done properly and safely but does it really cost £40.00 a post, especially as I have been told that they were done sometime last year! We will press on with the project but the money that will be paid for the testing would provide another 5 baskets.

Happy First Birthday MTA

The Moordown Traders are about to celebrate their first birthday this month and what a long way they have come. From a very tentative beginning they now have over 30 members, a membership of the Bournemouth chamber of Trade, an excellent web site, http://www.more4moordown.com/ and are about to launch a trading map. Have a look at the website to see how interesting Moordown really is.
This has been an interesting 12 months for me, watching a disparate group of businesses meld into a community and as a result the character of Moordown is developing as a separate entity and not just the 'rump of Winton', as I was told when I first became a Councillor. this made my blood boil as Moordown has always been a village, it's just that the rest of Bournemouth has crept up around it!


To residents in Easter Road, I will report the pot holes that have again developed in your road but don't be surprised if they are not repaired as it would be rather a waste as Easter Road, along with Limited and Naseby Roads are going to be completely resurfaced, paved and kerbed, at the middle to end of March. By not filling them now it will save at least £450. as it costs £75. per hole and I counted another 6 today. There may be more so please bear with us.

Bournemouth Little Theatre

Last night I found another of Winton/ Moordown's little gem, the Bournemouth Little Theatre. I can remember when they used to perform in the Town Centre and I have been searching for some real drama ever since. It is great to have so much entertainment in the theatres but the majority is music and dance, that is fine, I am very fond of both, but not an unrelieved diet of it. When we first came to Bournemouth, nearly 50 years ago, there was a season of serious drama in the winter, livened up with some Gilbert & Sullivan and of course the panto at Christmas. There were nearly always full houses and it was part of the entertainment scene. Of course in the summer the theatres catered for the visitors in addition to the Aquashow at the old Baths, on the sea front, and the Ice Show in Westover Road. Not to forget,of course, regular Concerts with the BSO. What a rich diet of entertainment we had then. Where has the serious drama gone? I am so happy to have found it alive and well at the BLT. Last nights production of Accrington Pals was both thought provoking and sad, but was well acted and produced with imaginative use of stage settings and props to produce a real sense of the period.
Their next production is Trap for a Lonely Man by Robert Thomas 11th to 16th April. Catch it if you can.