Morning Burtle,

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has made us feel so welcome to teh village. We have been here 3 months or so now, and in the last 24hrs I have had sweet peas and green beans delivered to my door - where else would you get such a community spirit - so, thank you!

Also, as most of you know I have 3 small children and have now had a chance to explore the local area - to this point, has anyone or has there every been a playgroup at Burtle village hall? If not, would people be interested ? Who would I need to speak to to find out more about setting one up?? Let me know your thoughts.........

Charlotte at Fairview House

Station Road, Burtle, Bridgewater, Somerset TA7 8NU   Tel: 01278 722399    

The Tom Mogg Inn

ANNOUNCEMENT

IT’S ALL CHANGE AT THE TOM MOGG INN !

And we need YOUR help!

NEW CHEFS * NEW MENU

EXCITING NEW PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

NEW MANAGEMENT (and we’re here to stay!)

We’d like YOU to help us come up with a NEW NAME for the Tom Mogg Inn

We are very much looking forward to working with the Village of Burtle and the local Community and would love your ideas and opinions. 

Please drop your ideas for a new name and any other suggestions for your local Pub & Restaurant you may have on a postcard with your name, address and telephone number and drop into the Pub to meet our new Landlord and his Team

NOW OPEN

The winner of our ‘NEW NAME FOR THE TOM MOGG’ competition will win a Voucher for £25 to dine in the Restaurant

WE NEED ALL ENTRIES IN BY 8pm SUNDAY 25^th JULY

Please call Tracy on 01278 722399 for any further information   

TO EVERYONE WHO ORGANISED THE FIRST BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY PARTY OF OUR SUPERB NEW HALL,WELL DONE A GREAT NIGHT OUT LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR ...KEN AND MARGARET BELL .

Hi Burtle Folk,

Just wanted to let you know that your fantastic 'recycled' village hall featured in our magazine The Greenacre Times. The magazine is part of the Greenacre Project which is aimed at getting North Londoners more aware of the environment and lower carbon living! Thanks for the inspiration.

Lindsay

(The Greenacre Project)

We are two teenage girls of 14, who would like to provide our services as baby sitters and dog walkers in our local area. Our services are available for baby sitting on: Fridays (4 o'clock onwards) and Saturdays, Sundays we are free any time. We are free everyday from 4 onwards and we will also do holidays. Preferably we would like payment hourly which is flexible to suit you. We hope you will consider us soon.  Call us on: 01458 211285

TO all in Burtle,

Just to let you know there will be diggers/vans visiting Fairview House this week for the installation of a sewage treatment plant for the house - this was/is part of the deal of buying the house.

I only found out late Friday it was happpening, so apologies to anyone who got conerned this morning when they saw all these diggers turn up!!

The dividing fence between Fairview and the proposed building plot is due to go up next week as far as I know.

If you have any questions/concerns please give us a call. FYI - we do not own the building plot so will not be able to answer any questions regarding it!!!

Many thanks

Charlotte

To all our old friends in Burtle, greetings from chilly North Yorkshire. We are now living in a village called Burniston, just a few miles from Scarborough and are looking forward to seeing some of our old friends when we come down for a week at the end of May. In the meantime, if you want to get in touch, we would love to hear from you.

Paul, Sheila, Becky & Emily Ware

Hello to all in Burtle. Finally have internet access so can now introduce ourselves. We have just moved to the village as some of you might know; we have moved into  Fairview House (old boarding house for the prep school) - or monkey puzzle house ! You might have even heard me shouting at my 3 very noisy children (Oscar, Olivia, Joshua). We have already been made to feel very welcome by the village but would love to know any history of Fairview House, so if you fancy a cup of tea, or do know anything about the house we would love to hear from you.

Andrew, Charlotte, and the three little ones!

Hello fellow parishioners just a quick message to say a very big thankyou to all those who came to the Easter prize bingo a great night was had by all. And to those who couldn't make it the next one will be on May 7th in the hall posters will be up advertising the event so please pass the message on to everyone you know.

Many Thanks.

Researching my family tree and came across the Tom Mogg Inn, Does anyone know anything about Tom Mogg; his background, family, where and when he was born, got married and when he died?

Thanks

David Mogg

Petersfield

Hampshire

We were very saddened to hear of Rex Moxey's passing and our thoughts go out to Angela, Aunt Ev,Gillian, Barry and their families from all their Canadian cousins,

Colin,Clive and John Moxey,

                           What a night....

A huge well done to The reverand,Rosemary and team for organising such a fabulous ball on Sat evening.It was lovely to see everyone  enjoying themselves & looking wonderful in dinner jackets and fab dresses.The food was excellent and so too were the band.Well done to the team. A Burtle night to remember...Hope you have raised lots of money for the Church

Well done to all the bad players those on the stage and those off the stage who worked so hard to produce what was a epic performance,  the audiences were a joy to perform to and made it all worthwhile.

To perform in a warm hall with new stage and curtains and new chairs for the audience to sit on  completed the enjoyment thank you everyone, see you again next year , ooh no you wont -- ooh yes you will !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello Burtle Townsfolk!!

My name is Carrie Burtle Wallace and I live in the state of Illinois USA. I was wondering if anyone in Burtle knows the history of how the village was named?

When my brother Ron Burtle was in the US AIr Force , stationed in Bentwaters England in early 1980's ., he had visited your lovely village. I recall as a child seeing pics of my brother taken in front of the Burtle Inn.  Upon his visit there , he met and managed to stay in touch with a few of the locals of Burtle  even after returning to the states. He has very fond memories from his visit there...Any info you could share would be appreciated!!

All our love from Spain, missing the good people of Burtle!!!  . (Krista, Rose, Anne, Hellen, Carol, the Simmons,  Ayleen, Charlotte, the Masters, Terry , Richard, Derek, Ben, Ralph, and +++++oh my God all that good neighbours) I wish I could mention all of you. We wish all the best for the 2010. LOL.  sorry for my bad english. , Hope to see you again. Love to the kids.  ( We are the spanish family who used to work at the Tom Mogg // Alex, Evita, Laura and Paula Aragoneses. XXXXXXXXXX

I loved living in Burtle.  I am now in Street and will shorly move to St Wenn Cornwall.  St wenn is like Burtle a real community with real community spirit.

I hope to be a the Christmas Eve Church service this year. Where is it this year?

Hello..what a great village website! I came upon it by accident when trying to find a contact detail for The Polden Post if it is still running. Can anyone help with a name number or email?

 I lived in Edington for many years until 2004 so it was a delight  to browse old haunts!

I now live in Street and have opened a new Beauty Salon (Beauty at the Manse see www.beautyinsomerset.co.uk) and really wanted to advertise our new venture but support an old favourite magazine at the same time! So if any one can help please email or call us on 01458 440242   or drop into The Manse, just 2 doors up from Living Homes!

Thanks, Deborah

Hi Martin & Mary,

I live in Burtle  and agree its a great place to live,I have several friends in the village who have dogs and walk them regularly along diffrent routes around the village,one who has several.I will pass on your message and hopefully the info may help you.

Good luck with the house hunt

Miracles still happen .(if you live in burtle)                                                                                                          

The miracle man Robin said i can replace the old cold ugly hall with anew sexy hall, it will be made from local sheep wool,straw , bottles and clay in three weeks Robin plus the odd collection of merry  followers had secured most of the finance and designed the building .

We are in a recession yet almost the entire project was built with unpaid labour but plenty of tea coffee and cakes consumed and stories told .Burtle be proud . Olympic stadium next???????????

Hello All,

We would just like to say a big Thank You, and well done to all involved in the village hall project. We had a lovely evening at the Grand Opening, and it was a real pleasure to meet so many of you, and to be so warmly welcomed to the village.

We have recently moved into Churches Farm, opposite the Burtle Inn, and are really enjoying life in Burtle!

Thanks again,

Paul & Julie Kirkham

I am trying to contact Colin Moxey who posted a message recently about his Mum Betty. I used to live in Alliston, Ontario, Canada and was friends with Colin. When we moved back to England we lost touch. I would like to get in touch if possible and if anyone could get a message to Colin that would be appreciated.

Derek Saveall

I'd just like to say how good your new hall is looking.  I am a member of the Camping and caravanning club folk song and dance group that camped in the field next to the hall.  good luck with the opening event and I hope to see the completed hall next year when we come to the village again.

P.S.  I work at the local senior school in Corsham and have told one of the Geography teachers about your 'recycled' build as he is really interested in things like this.

Julie Bryan

to eileen & kath, thank you for your kind thoughts about Mum ( Betty).

This is Colin the eldest son who has lived in Canada for 30yrs.

We have just read this message (in Woking) and Mum remembers having a nice friendship with Betty.  She would like to send her sympathies to the family.

Kath for Eileen Higgens

I would just like to thank everyone who come to Betty Moxey funeral on Monday 5th January. She was the Heart of Burtle for many of years and will be sadly missed. Thank you to all that came and who was thinking of her.

Kind regards

Amanda (Great grand daughter), Colin Moxey (Son), Lyn Shepherd (Grand daughter) and family

All the best for 2009 x

We have just had a visit from Chris and Brenda Mockridge (Brenda is my sister) and caught up on the village news - there always seems to be plenty happening there!

Mum is Eileen Higgens who with her late husband Des helped at the Christmas parties at the village hall for several years.  If anyone remembers Mum, she would be happy to hear from you on this message board.

Kath Higgens

My name is Trish Olive, and I will start work as your parish priest on 13th January 2009.  My husband Mike and I will live in the vicarage in Shapwick.  We originally come from Kent and have lived and worshipped in many differnt places.  I trained for ministry in the Church of England at Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford: before that I was a primary school teacher.  Mike and I have three children, Sarah, Nicholas anbd Rebecca.  The eldest two are married and Sarah gave birth to our first grandhild, Daniel, just over a year ago,

We both enjoy walking and have a golden retriever called Ben, who is nearly 4 years old, and we are looking forwad to giving him long walks around all of the parishes; so please say hello if you see us.

We are excited about the move and being part of the communities of Ashcott, Shapwick, Burtle, Cilton Polden and Edington.

To all visitors to the Burtle Village web site.

We are being repeatedly attacked by a virus which corrupts the database on the web server and renders the site inaccessible.  I have now restored the database from backups on 6 separate occasions over the last few weeks and as yet have been unable to identify which visitor to the site is the carrier of the virus.

I urge you all to please check you have ant-virus software installed and that it is up to date.

After the last attack we unfortunately lost all our messages of goodwill from the Harvest Home which I was unable to recover.

Best regards

Steve - Webmaster

Hi friends

We will be in the village next week week hope to see you all then

23rd July for week

Regards

Arthur & Moira

Alan Parr, our BVH Chairman, has just had an encouraging telephone conversation with Victoria Jenks, a repreentative of the Lottery Commission.  Due to the number of applications, however, we will not know if we have reached stage two until October this year.

So keep your fingers crossed a little while longer.

I would like to thank the organisers of the Burn's Night celebration last Saturday.  I think it was a great success with much fun and enjoyment had by all.  A very special thanks to Jane Allen for organising a spread of Faggots/Sausages, Mash and Peas to over 70 hungry guests and of course many many thanks to all those involved in the preparation and serving of the food, arranging and clearing up the hall, running the bar etc. 

I hope this will be a regular event.