This year BCA is backing the village fete and stands to gain £300 or more from this one event. This income is essential if we are to realise much of the Beautiful Burton project, which includes a WW1 memorial bench on the Triangle, and picket fences for the village entry Read more
This month we will be reading ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Tracy Chevalier. Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in Read more
The Burton Book Club meets on the third Monday of every month, at 19:30 in the Old House @ Home. Books are picked at random out of a hat from members’ nominations. Each month the selected book will be posted on this website. We have somewhere in the region of 8-12 members. If Read more
At last night’s general meeting of the Community Association the Burton Bridge Group was born. Championed by David Staincliffe, the group already boasts eight members. As David said, ‘the group is open to players of all standards, including the complete novice’. As long as you know what a deck of Read more
Hello! If you’re looking for a quick start guide for this site, you’ve come to the right place. On this blog, we explain the menus and layout, how to subscribe to – and interact with – the site, plus we introduce some basic terminology. Finding your way around The image Read more
Burton Community Association Committee Meeting 14 April 2014, at the Old House @ Home Those present: Amanda Read (Chair), Grant Cambridge (Deputy Chair), Alistair Caie (Secretary), Paul Bird, Paul Lortal, Moya Webb 1 Apologies for absence: Pip Gilbert, Freddie Clark 2 Minutes of Committee Meeting 24 March 2014: Approved 3 Read more
We recently discovered that Burton will receive superfast broadband in the next 12 months or so. The exchange at Badminton has already been upgraded and is “taking orders”. Sadly we can not make an order as yet. The next stage in providing the new service to Burton involves laying fibre Read more