After the resounding success of our earlier village tidy-up, Victoria and Trystan Hitchens are proposing a second day of cleaning, clearing and making good, before winter sets in. All welcome. Meet at the Church at 10am.
As you may know the Burton Community Association has asked John Millican to look at street lighting in the village. We stress that there is no definite plan or commitment to provide street lighting in Burton and that this is just a consultation. John would be interested in your views on the Read more…
Burton Community Association General Meeting Monday 12 May 7:30pm at the Old House at Home At the meeting the Chair of the BCA, Amanda Read, presented the Chair’s Report for Period March-May 2014. The report summarises BCA activities since its inception at the launch event in March 2014. The full report Read more…
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…
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…
In 2011 the Parish Plan stated ‘Speed of traffic through Burton: 75% of all respondents – and 90% of those who live in Burton – say that traffic drives too fast on the road through Burton (B4039). The police are aware of this concern but have said recently that ..“based on the initial speed survey data, Read more…
This month we will be reading Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson (1919). The book is a collection of interrelated short stories about the various inhabitants of the fictional small Midwestern town of Winesburg. Anderson was in the vanguard of American writers Read more…