U15052 Dawson Road Lytham St Annes TRO Plan

Members of Lytham Inner Wheel and their guests recently attended an “Out of Africa” night at our home. Several hundred pounds were raised for the club’s Overseas Charities and the guests enjoyed traditional african dishes of  Biltong and monkey nuts, Bobotie and sweet potato , together with a tropical fruit salad. for dessert. Howard and I  lived and worked in […]

Lancashire County Council have announced the captioned road closure, next month from 8am. to 5pm. each day from Tuesday,2nd.April – Friday,12th.April, to enable LCC to undertake 40mm deep carriageway resurfacing works, including manhole covers, during  the school holiday period. The Bus Service 78 will unfortunately  be affected and the recommended diversion route is Heyhouses Lane […]

Congratulations to Cllr Mike Thornton, the new Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh. Despite adverse publicity in the weeks before the by- election, it proves that hard-working Liberal  Democrats can and do win. Well done to Mike and all his team and commiserations to the Conservatives and Labour who were embarrasingly relegated to 3rd.and 4th.place,respectively, by […]

Howard and I have just returned from a “last minute” 10 day West African cruise,sailing from Tenerife to Banjul in Gambia and Dakar in Senegal before visiting several of the Cape Verde Islands, on the return journey to Tenerife. The trip brought back memories of  living in Freetown in Sierra Leone when Howard was working […]

I was informed last week that the Agents for Electricity North West had withdrawn their application for 3 detached 2-storey houses on the green space at the junction of Blackpool Road North and Kilnhouse Lane. A smaller development had been suggested by Fylde Planning Officers, but this was deemed to be uneconomic and the Agents […]

At the Citizen’s Advice Bureau Management Committee Meeting this evening, we were informed that a new 24 hour helpline ( similar to Child Line ), is now available in the North West – it is for lonely, isolated or neglected adults and elderly people who require advice or help. The telephone number is – 0800 […]

Following a walkabout of Kilnhouse, I asked for a Cleansweep project to be carried out in the area. Bill Tobin from Fylde B C . staff from New Fylde Housing, PCSO Gary Boardman and the Police and Crime Commissioner have all come on board to improve our area. They will be meeting on Thursday 17th […]

For a number of years I have been writing Christmas Carols , to the tune of Nursery Rhymes, for Mayfield School Choir. Year 6 took these on as a project and produced a booklet with their own illustrations – they wrote the final Carol themselves. These went on sale before Christmas for at least 50p […]

Last week, together with children from Mayfield Primary School , the Headteacher,Mrs Suzanne Fish, members of the Local Police and staff from Fylde Borough’s Parks Dept., we planted 150 trees and 50 tulip bulbs to commemorate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, on Blackpool Road Playing Fields. The trees had been donated by the Woodland Trust to […]