Morton Village Society

Morton Village Gets Yorkshire in Bloom Gold!

Morton Village Admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:00:31 +0000

On 17th September 2014 we were awarded a Gold award together with the Busfield Arms. Below are some of the notes from the judges.
There is a high quality of planting. The village is very clean and tidy. The judges were impressed by the number and friendliness of all the people we met.

The 50th Anniversary of Britain in Bloom sign and display. Good mix of plant material using both permanent and annual. The reuse of bulbs and spring planting. Runner beans using a tree for support and the community planters cared for by villagers.

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May Lottery Winners

Morton Village Admin — Sun, 25 May 2014 10:21:48 +0000

You’ve got to be in it to win it.

If you love Morton please join the lottery-our major source of funds

1^ST 509 £100 K.TRATTLES

2^nd 166 £50 J.SAMPSON

3^rd 97 £25 W. & A. SHAW

4^th 442 £15 A.FARNHILL

5^th 471 £ 10 G.DONOVAN

Does anyone know Angela Farnhill as we don’t have her address. Please ask her to get in touch.

For more details contact Karen
Email; karenredhead@hotmail.co.uk
Tel.no. 07718763309

Join the Morton Village Lottery

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April Lottery

Morton Village Admin — Sun, 25 May 2014 10:19:35 +0000

And the Winners Are……

1st    62        Eric Brunton        12 Morton Grove –Yippee
2nd    53        Roger Steel        23 Whitestone Drive
3rd    267     Polly Heaton       The Hermitage Main Rd
4th    479    Diane Staniforth    1 The Armitage
5th    101    JR & LM Southern    61 Thorneycroft Road

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More Break in / burglary attempts this weekend in Morton

Morton Village Admin — Tue, 06 May 2014 18:34:43 +0000

We would like to alert our readers that Morton is being targeted yet again by burglars. And attempted break in was brought to out attention last night at approx 1.00am at Smithfield behind Settler Dam.

We ask all villagers to be on the look out for suspicious activity and do not ignore noises in the middle of the night.

We are clearly being targeted by unscrupulous and determined individuals , and only our combined efforts will lead to these people being caught and served justice!

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Spate of Burglaries in Village

Morton Village Admin — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:54:12 +0000

There has been a few break-ins and attempted break-ins in the Village over the last couple of days- we would urge all residents to watch out for suspicious activity or suspicious people delivering leaflets and then looking through windows etc.

The break-ins happened in the early hours of the morning on Monday 21st April, other residents report people trying to force doors between the hours of 1.30am and 3.30am. The police are aware of this, if you see suspicious characters scoping out property’s please ring 101 – noting time and descriptions.

Break-ins were on Heath Grove and Dimples Lane – with other houses in the immediate are reporting attempted entry.

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Tour de France

Stephen Duxbury — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:51:45 +0000

Friday 4th July in East Morton Institute, doors open 7.30pm

Contact Barbara@mortonvillage.org.uk

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Lottery Winners

Morton Village Admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:46:23 +0000

Over £2500 to give away in the Morton Lottery each year. Join Now so as not to miss out on being a winner.

Last Months Winners

£100 R. Rothery
£50 Clare de Luca
£25 P. Lonsdale
£15 Adie Brown
£10 C. Binns

Well Done!

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Events – Spring 2014

Morton Village Admin — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:58:24 +0000

HIRE THE VILLAGE INSTITUTE

The Institute is available to hire for your party, event, sale or project – see Institute page of village website for diary and pricing.

Call the bookings secretary on 07534 195446

Every Thursday at the Institute Everyone is welcome to the “Morton Meet”

April & May

Fri 18th April at St Luke’s Church Good Friday music and readings
Sun 20th April at St Luke’s Church Easter Sunday Service
Fri 16th May at EM School Sing-a-long-a-Grease-night !

June & July

Sat 21st Jun at St Luke’s Church Steeton Male Voice Choir
Sun 29th Jun at EM School Children’s Fun Day
Fri 4th July at the Institute “Bonjour Le Tour” Night
Sun 13th July at the Rec Village Gala & parade
Sat 19th July at the Institute WW1 Centenary event
Mon 28th July at the Institute Village Society AGM at 7.3-pm,

The Institute hosts many regular clubs and classes including :

Toddler Groups on Tues & Fri mornings : Caroline 07810 713271
Rainbows, Brownies & Guides on Mon evening : Katrina 07866 900792
Beavers, Cubs & Scouts on Thu evening : Mark 01274 560531
Yoga classes on Tues afternoon & Wed evening : Pat 01535 661638 & Barbara 01535 665910
Zumba on Fri lunch : Dayne 07775 523987
Children’s dance on Wed evening : Jennifer’s Dance 07792 523719
Children’s music on Wed afternoon : Lynne @ Rhythm Time 07789 895894
Art Classes on Mon & Thurs mornings plus beginners Mon afternoon :: Karen 01274 560279
Keep Fit on Tues eve : Gill 01274 566504
Pilates on Wed morning : : Liz 07989 378757

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Fisical Sports Coaching

Morton Village Admin — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:54:46 +0000

At Fisical Sports Coaching we are proud to offer a specialist multi sports development programme which is individually tailored to all our clients sporting needs.

We work in pre-schools, nurseries, primary schools, after school clubs and tots sessions throughout the region delivering structured coaching sessions which are designed to realise the children’s full potential not only in their sporting skills but to also develop their confidence and understanding of team work.

The age range is from 18 months upwards. In addition to these, we run several academy style sports sessions which focus more on the children’s sporting techniques and offer the children an opportunity to progress to development centres at professional football clubs. Due to the success of our work we are increasing our number of affiliations with clubs and schools and plan to develop our business in new and exciting ventures.

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Fast Broadband (BT Infinity) Denial for East Morton

Morton Village Admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:32:24 +0000

You may have seen various posters and received flyers from BT offering super-fast ‘Infinity’ broadband to the village recently. Over the last 12 months or so I have received a few emails from villagers bitterly complaining about the broadband service we receive here in East Morton. We run our business from the village and there are quite a large number of home workers also in the village who rely on a good broadband service, we applied back in April for the new ‘Infinity’ service to be told first it would be available in June, then it was put back to September, then we were given end of December.

This is a ‘Fairly long post – to summarise – East Morton IS NOT going to get Fast Broadband anytime soon – due to BT “budgets” – a form will be provided at the end of the post to voice your concerns

Recently I was contacted by another village resident who also is dependent on, and wanting faster speeds, he is a former IT Engineer and now a web designer, where speed of uploads and downloads are crucial to the everyday running of his freelance business.

Over the course of our business related discussions, we also realised that the impact of lack of fibre based (fast broadband) will not only affect the business user and homeworker – but also those who wish to take advantage of services like Sky Anytime Plus or LoveFilm. These services are examples of “data” that can not be downloaded on our restricted service in the village – this also impacts on our general browsing due to ‘throttling’ the lines that we share at peak periods.

I think as many of us as possible should complain about the abysmal service we are getting from BT Openreach. Please go to the link http://www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/submitFeedback.do?contactReason=general_enquiry but then click ‘NO’ and this takes you to a form you can complete, we need to all complain about this decision as it affects us all, also then send an email to Peter Rashbrook NI Customer Engagement on nga.enquiries@openreach.co.uk

We were very late in getting broadband into the village about ten years ago, many of us are lucky if we get 1 or 2mbs speed, where as in Bingley and Keighley they can receive up to 7/8mbs already. BT Infinity by the way – could give up to 48mbs, but the service relies on a fibre infrastructure being made available in the village.

The old ‘copper based lines and cabinets’ will NEVER provide this speed and bring us in line with what is offered all around us. For one reason only – COST to BT Openreach who are in receipt of a government grant to perform this infrastructure upgrade.

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