Litter Bins restored

19 January 2012 15:42Filed in: News
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About twenty years ago, the Ledbury and District Civic Society took exception to the poor state and paucity of numbers of Litter Bins for the town, so donated and paid for the installation of 24 new bins for Ledbury.

Over the years the condition of the bins deteriorated so since neither Ledbury Town Council or Herefordshire Council budgets allowed for repairing such street furniture, the Society decided to initiate and pay for remedial action and commissioned Martin Jeynes, a well-known Ledbury builder and lifelong resident, to repair and redecorate all the bins. The work has been completed and Ledbury can be proud that litter has smart receptacles waiting to be of service. The photograph shows Martin putting the finishing touch to the litter bin at the entrance to Bye Street car park.

Heritage Trail Map

13 January 2012 09:28Filed in: News | History

We are delighted to announce that more than 2100 Heritage Trail Maps have been sold.


Heritage Database

01 June 2011 09:25Filed in: News
Compiled by English Heritage, the National Heritage List for England is a searchable database of all nationally designated heritage assets including Listed Buildings, Scheduled Monuments, Registered Parks and Gardens, Registered Battlefields and Protected Wreck Sites.

http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/

A search of Ledbury (using advanced search County of Herefordshire, Ledbury (Unitary Authority=County of Herefordshire) produces 247 results!

Cookies

28 May 2011 13:35Filed in: News
Commencing 26 May 2011, all UK businesses and organisations running websites in the UK are required by law to obtain people’s consent before they install cookies on their machines. (A cookie is a line of code that enables websites to monitor visitor usage, etc: it does not identify the actual user.)

None of the websites that I run and maintain install cookies, but the company whose services I use to monitor usage does install cookies. I am checking the legality of that as far my responsibility is concerned. Frankly I think cookies are an invasion of privacy although I accept they are necessary in some matters so if it transpires that I need to obtain your consent then I shall end the arrangement with the monitoring company.

Michael Lever
pp Ledbury and District Society Trust Ltd

BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester

29 March 2011 17:24Filed in: News | BBC Radio

A while back, the Society was contacted by the weekend producer on BBC Hereford and Worcester radio about a regular feature on Saturday breakfast programme when, just after 08:00, someone with a knowledge of local history would to come into the studio and chat to the presenter in a live broadcast. The producer has gathered a group of people from different organisations in Herefordshire and Worcestershire and the idea is to call upon the individual every 6-8 weeks or so. No payment is offered, but there is the opportunity for free publicity.

The committee decided the person to represent the Ledbury and District Society Trust would be Dr Sylvia Pinches.

Dr Pinches will be on the breakfast show on Saturday 9 April.

BBC Hereford and Worcester is on 104FM and 94.7FM