Moordown Halifax Memorial project.

Today, 22nd March, is the 67th memorial of the crash of the Halifax and I am pleased to report that the Memorial project continues apace and that we have now placed the order for the stone with Alan, Rice and Tapper in Moordown. We are now hoping for early May for the dedication. We are particularly anxious to have it as soon as possible as, thanks to the hard work of two gentlemen, one in Scotland and one in Yorkshire, who have been able to find relatives of some members of the crew and they would like to come over, so the sooner the project is finished the better. Contrary to what we thought about last year the memorial is scheduled to stand on the corner of Meadow Court Close which is as
close as we can get to the actual crash site and will be visible for all to see.
At a small tea party that was held, courtesy of Moordown Conservative Club, Martin Dowse from Meridian TV, was there and interviewed several of the people. It will appear sometime this week on the 6.pm local Meridian news. It was a very enjoyable afternoon and enabled many people to either learn more about the crash or renew old acquaintances.

How Lucky we are.

When I turned on the TV for the news I could hardly accept what I was seeing. After the dreadful earthquake in New Zealand only a few short weeks ago and the floods and hurricane in Australia just before that, I didn't expect to see anything else that bad for a long time. How can one cope with these terrible natural disasters? I have never seen anything like the tsunami of today though. When your house starts to fall down around your ears, the road is rearing up like a bucking bronco and a wall of debris is rushing towards you, where do you go ? What do you do? Well it seems in Japan the cameras come out. I don't mean that in an unkind way it is just that as I was watching one of the videos, on YouTube, all you could hear was the clicking of cameras. That shows remarkable calm and strength of character as I fell that the majority of people would be running away as fast as they could go. Maybe the Japanese have more acceptance of the inevitable than we do. However, whilst I was watching it all happening I was thinking how glad I am to be living in a country where the worst thing that has happened recently was a rather heavier than usual snow fall. No earthquakes, no tsunamis, no erupting volcanoes, how lucky we are to have such a green and pleasant land to live in.

Road Works in Naseby, Easter and Limited Roads

The notice is out for the repairs of Naseby, Easter and Limited Roads. The work will start on 21st March until 12th June. This will cause disruption, I am sorry to say, but access to homes will be maintained as far as possible, all other access will be forbidden. I am sorry for the disruption but as I have had many requests to have these roads repaired I hope all residents will accept the inevitablity of it and be pleased with the outcome.

Following a meeting of 'Cops on the Corner', on saturday last, I am in the process of writing to the traffic department to investigate the feasibility of an island, or crossing, at the Gresham Road - Charminster Avenue junction, double yellow lines on the corner of Gresham Road and Charminster Avenue and the VAS camera to be installed in Priory View Road. I am very aware that there are a number of new pot holes around the Ward which I will locate, and send the details to Highways ASAP.

I have changed the videos at the top of this Blog to remind people of the fantastic Air Festival in 2009 which will be the highlight of summer again this year. I love it.