village snazzy archive
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- Aug09Many Thanks“Many thanks to everyone who helped in keeping this event going. And a huge thanks ...”
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- 2009
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- Oct16What a Hoot!“Our good friends at the Forestry Commission have kindly donated four "Owl Boxes" to help ...”07Spooktastic“Our plans for a repeat of our spectacular Hallowe'en & Bonfire Bash are well under ...”04Update from the Bat Cave“Within the last few days we have installed the first of our "Sponsored Bat Boxes". ...”
- Aug12What a Fantastic Effort“Congratulations to Gin Pit Residents Association for a magnificent Village Fete. The weather was great ...”
- Jul21Yippee-i-ay!“Howdee pardner, just a quick line to remind y'all about the Gin Pit Village fete ...”A Walk For Life“On Sunday the 21st June 2009, 27 residents, family and friends from Gin Pit Village ...”Is it a UFO?“Reports have been seen in the local press of strange objects in the sky over ...”
- Jun25July 4th Fun Day“Higher Folds Community Group are holding a fun day on Saturday 4th July at St Gabriels. We ...”15Planting Day In Gin Pit Village“Following a successful application for a "Green Grant" from Adactus Housing Association, the Gin Pit ...”11Recycle Week 2009“From the 22nd to the 28th June is "Recycle Week". I know many of you ...”General Meeting“The Residents Association will be holding a General Meeting in the Miners Welfare on Thursday ...”Rain didn't stop play“The Higher Folds Fun Day in support of the Mayor's Charities, Menengitis and err what ...”
- May28Dates for Your Diary“On Saturday 6th June there will be a family fun day at St Gabriel's, Higher ...”05Village Fete (meeting date confirmed)“Plans for this years fete on 9th August are moving along a pace. There will be ...”
- Apr2928Our Fete in your hands“Plans for this years fete on 9th August are moving along a pace. There will be ...”I am on the case“Following some recent technical difficulties the web site is now back up and running. Over ...”1203Adactus Grant“Rose and Jeanette with a speedy response have managed to get the paperwork done and ...”Summer Time“Summer time is showing itself, The Daffs are out and plants coming into bloom, and ...”
- Mar22Iam fixing it.“most of everything should be back online, you should be able to log back in ...”
- Jan18Annual General Meeting“The Residents Association Annual General Meeting will be held on Thursday 29th January 2009 at ...”17Lots More Games“ So Many more Games... I Will sort a nice games page out soon... but till ...”16word grill“A crossword puzzel Play Free Online Games at freeonlinegames.co.uk ”1201
- 2008“So far so good!”
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- Oct
- Sep29Nature’s Larder“Yesterday I went for a walk with Katie Horgan from the Forestry Commission in Colliers ...”24Forestry Commission Volunteer Days“October - December 2008 For All tasks, Please come in old clothes and bring waterproofs. Gloves, ...”23Membership“I am pleased to let everyone know that this year, we have broken our record ...”20Tin Cans!“Heres a project for anyone to do! Great for quite nights or fun to do ...”
- Aug28Village Fete Debrief“Title: Village Fete De-Brief Location: At the club Description: A basic, chat about the event, feedback and ...”23Wet, Wet, Wet at Village Fete“Ok so the pop group Wet Wet Wet weren't there. But hundreds of other people ...”Financial Statement For 2001 - example post“As an example, you could publish an annual financial statement here. And create a post ...”Say Bye Bye To Fancy Brackets“While updating the categories on all the past posts tonight, I've had to edit out ...”22Dish of the Month“Welcome to another new feature. Following the success of the home bake stall at our ...”Seasonal Treats“Halloweeen Pumpkin Soup with Nutmeg & Ginger A warm and spicy soup to come home to. ...”Quiz 6 Answers“See below for the answers to last weeks Twenty Questions from our Quiz page - ...”Twenty Questions 6“Welcome to our quiz page. Below you will find a new quiz for you to ...”A Woodland Project Post“A test post for the woodland Project category. You can delete this post after you ...”Annual Fete Makes The Journal!“The Leigh Journal featured our Village Fete on Page 2 this year! (Scanned Image coming soon) I ...”Astley Park FunDay“Most of the stallholders present at GinPit Summer Fete were asked to attend a new ...”Christmas coming up...“The Annual Children's Christmas party will be held at XXXXXX To book your children's places, please ...”Life's a Beach“Ironically our long-awaited 'earthquaking' took place only a few days before the Summer Fete was ...”Minutes Of The G.R.A Committee Meeting - Date XXXX“The minutes of a meeting can be published directly here.”Join The GinPit Residents Association“If you live in the beautiful and historic Lancastrian village of GinPit then you've probably ...”21New Web update“Title: New Web update Location: online Description: upgradeing the site and sytems Date: 2008-08-21”103rd Annual Village Fete“Title: 3rd Annual Village Fete Location: GinPit Village Green Description: The locally renowned extravaganza! *Beer Tent *Fantastic Fresh ...”
- Jun15It's Fantasmagorical - The Summer Fete, Sunday 10th August!“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is coming to historical Gin Pit Village. This magnificent car ...”
- Mar28Personal History“A series of articles are being written by a local publication about the history of ...”
- Jan2925That's A Date“Following the AGM of the Gin Pits Residents Association where a new committeee was elected. ...”23How To: Post a 'Mail To' Link“To avoid 'SPAM' emails (from Robots) it's a good idea to use a bit of ...”1410Have Your Say“The time has come for the Residents Association Annual General Meeting. This will be ...”0903Thank you, all.“On Sunday, 30th December, my wife and I were joined by family and many village ...”
- 2007
- Dec24Raffle Results“A good time was had by all at the Gin Pit Village Residents Association annual ...”18Festive Fun“Street Credz Quiz Christmas Music Quiz 2007 Guess the songs from the lyrics 1.Ever seen a ...”
- Nov11Disgusting Debenhams.“Just got back from visiting family in Winchester. Several days ago, I was walking along ...”05Spectacular! Spectacular!“Saturday nights bonfire and fireworks display went really well. My thanks to the committee and volunteers ...”
- Oct26Seasonal Treats“As Halloween and Bonfire Night approach, see our Cooks Corner for some tasty Seasonal Treats! ...”22Apologies“It is with regret that the Cabaret Night planned for Fri 26th Oct has been ...”15Find da dawg.“Please keep your eyes peeled for a greyhound (white with black patches) in the Astley ...”Those B*%&$* Cars !“If you live in the village (and assuming that you're not a hermit, bedridden, or ...”14More Tasty Treats“See our new Category "Cooks Corner". It currently shows ideas for what to do ...”13Well Done Wendy!“On Saturday 6th October, Wendy from Meanley Road had a coffee morning for the Macmillan ...”08Things to come!“Hi again, it's only me, I have posted a new "Twenty Questions" quiz on our ...”01Mouth watering goodies“Hi, I am back from my jolly holidays in Halkidiki, Greece. Two weeks of rest ...”
- Sep21Bravo, Brava“Just to say that the website is looking good, with more comments and info. We're ...”14And The Winner Is !“Keiran Torr from Astley. His balloon was found in Darlington, County Durham DL1 4DY. ...”02Residents Association“See the New page for a brief history of the Association.”Media and Television“See our new page for information about TV programmes filmed in Gin Pit Village.”
- Aug31It's the final count down !!“Not long to go now and it is getting rather exciting as the closing date ...”New Pages“Keep a look out for new pages being added to the site. You can Access ...”30Miles or Kilometres?“Well there are not many days to go now. We are on count down!! The ...”29Gin Pit history“Gin Pit is an historic village and many residents have come and gone over the ...”27Over the Hills and Far Away - Balloon Race Update“With only a week to go until the close of the race, reports are still ...”24Balloon Race Update“Several more balloons have been reported as being found. Reports have come in from ...”1713Balloon Race - Where is Wighill?“For those not in the know Wighill is just North of Tadcaster (North Yorkshire) between ...”12Ok; so who took some pictures, then ?“Did you take any pictures at the village green 'do' ? I never had ...”Bursting Ballon News !!“Over the hills and far away. Three more balloons or so they say. Rochdale, Halifax, Wighill is ...”07Ballooning News!!“The race is hotting up!. Two more balloons have been reported found. One ...”05Balloon Race Update“120 balloons were set free yesterday at our Village Green Gala Celebration, which was a ...”Celebration on The Green“The Village Residents’ Association, which had worked for three years to obtain the licence to ...”04Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic !“Nothing else can describe our Village Green Celebration today, which was a great success in ...”
- Jul28Boys, and girl, in blue.“Our thanks to the three police officers who came along to our meeting last ...”Damn the weather, full speed ahead.“Our village green celebration and fete fast approaches, just a week today! A few of ...”23Thanks“Thanks to those who helped out on the 'Forestry Day' stall. The money we made ...”22Well, fancy that !“Our residents association had a stall today at the Forestry Fun Day, mentioned previously. ...”20You can't see the wood for.......“Well, actually, you can see the wood, if you come along to the Forestry ...”03
- Jun3020'Saphire' sparkles !“Last Friday's Caberet night at the Miners' welfare club was a great success. The singing ...”0807SAPHIRE is coming !“Make a date for a supper and cabaret night with the great music and ...”05
- May27Kalymnos“Norma's Village, Kalymnos. Was trying to think of something to put on the site, and then ...”26Goodbye Lilly“On Thursday last a service was held at Howe Bridge crematorium for our neighbour Lilly ...”1312
- Apr26Wanted - Can anybody help?“I need about 35 to 40 plastic plant pots. The size you buy bedding ...”2416
- Mar30Village Gallery Pictures“When the village gallery was first done I could click on the picture and then ...”Football Card“Our thanks to Joan and Jeanette for taking a 'football card' round the village this ...”23Tell 'em all about it.“Hey, here's a thought. If anyone in the association has a child's birthday coming ...”Not picture perfect !“Got some excellent pictures from Tony (Finley). These were hard copies and also on disc ...”Meeting soon“Will let you know as soon as this is arranged. We don't have a lot ...”13So how about some pictures then ?“As you see, we now have a pictures page. All we need is some of ...”Come home soon, Margaret.“Our commiserations to our good neighbour, Margaret Abbot. Margaret is a great character with ...”12Any old pictures ?“Or, for that matter, any new pictures? We have a few people ...”06Ever Played 'Piggy' ?“No, no; forget Kermit. I played Piggy in Gin Pit, as a boy. Its probably ...”03Vandalism (or sabotage ?)“Three of the fenceposts which surround the village green have been sawn through, at the ...”01
- Feb28Traffic flow“Got held up today going out (and back in) on the one road leading to ...”27Thanks, Simon“My thanks to Simon (of DumbDomains fame) for popping round to offer some needed ...”23Football Card“Thanks to Jeanette and Joan for taking a fund-raising football card around the village. The ...”Joining the residents association“Have you remembered to join the residents’ association this year ? Its only £2.00 per ...”22Village News“See the village news page to discover whats happened, is happening or is ( hopefully) ...”10Blogger“Just a quick message. I am now a professional blogger. Watch this space. Rose”
- 2005
- Jan22Background, the start of the Village Green project.“Our community marked an historic first as the Village Green was officially handed back by ...”
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