Letters from Nantwich

(Occasional correspondence)

FROM time to time I get the urge to write about something going on in my home town. I suppose it is a little like being responsible for producing a weekly opinion column in a newspaper - except that I do not have to produce one on a regular basis. If you would like to read any of the the letters, click on to the appropriate photograph or heading. (The list continues here.) 

lThere is also a page of updates for some of these letters which are only accurate as at the date they were written. Click here to see any updates. 

 

Nearly there

Development making progress

(February 2013 - 2)

Water features

Community wood is waterlogged

(February 2013)

Battling weather

No problem for event

(January 2013 - 2)

 

Time to revert?

Lack of road signs still causing trouble

(January 2013)

Train service plan

Church's miniature

train has big plans

(August 2012)

Church with a train

A look around an impressive building 

(April 2012 - 2)

Battle at risk

Organisers need help for popular event

(September 2011 - 2)

Whose left of way?

Confrontation on the Greenway

(September 2011)

Toilets close

Half of town's toilets

flushed away

(May 2011)

Loop the loop walk

Facelift boosts stroll

on edge of Nantwich

(April 2011 - 2)

Life as we know it

Local people tell of town's groups

(April 2011)

Will hall close?

Popular venue may be facing the axe 

(February 2011)

New name for hall

Venue for hire is renamed by group

(November 2010)

Red for Greenway

Will new cycle path wipe out greenery?

(September 2010 - 2)

That sinking feeling

Town centre shop in collapse drama

(September 2010)

Housing for future

College wants 550 homes on land

(August 2010)

Spending the fund

Council wants money spending ideas

(July 2010)

Shadows over event

Will Food and Drinks Festival take place?

(March 2010 - 3)

Fair fees for all

Call for same parking charges all round

(March 2010 - 2)

Then there were two

Long-established butcher closes

(February 2010 - 3)

Bigger attraction

Popular town event expands programme

(February 2010 - 2)

Riverside safe

All the hard work to be saved by new group

(February 2010)

The Cat is back

Another old name returns to town

(January 2010)

Oh, Christmas cone

New shape of the festive season

(December 2009)

Cat on air again

Local broadcasters move to new studio

(November 2009)

Barbecue weather?

The weather forecast that went so wrong

(September 2009)

No signs at all

The town's streets with no road signs

(August 2009 - 3)

Say cheese show

Setting the gold and silver standards

(August 2009 - 2

A hazy future?

Cigarette smoke could fill this pleasant view

(August 2009)

All round the houses

Strange road routes in and through town

(June 2009)

Steps too far?

A piece of history is lost in road works

(May 2009)

Open area at risk

A building is planned for this open space

(March 2009)

A jungle out there

Why doesn't council back garden plan?

(February 2009 - 2)

View goes west

Restoration work hides church feature

(February 2009)

Misery in store

End of an era in Nantwich shopping

(December 2008)

Dangerous post box

The pillar box that

went to the wall

(November 2008)

There is a season . . .

Christmas decorations up in October

(October 2008 - 2)

Battle of site?

Festival damages town centre site 

(October 2008)

Event saved

Volunteers come forward to save day

(July 2008 - 2)

Taking the biscuit

Do you recall

post-war treat?

(July 2008)

Pubs call time

One pub saved, three stay closed

(June 2008)

The umbrella tree

A look at the items left in a tea shop

(June 2008)

Paper mountain

Bombarded with

by-election material

(May 2008)

New lamps for old

Seeing the light over changes

(April 2008 - 5)

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