Fantastic! Thanks for a Great Effort.

A big thank you to everyone involved with the Spring-clean on Saturday 28 March.

Hebden Royd Town Council have the great idea for community groups like ourselves to organise themselves to clean up the local area.

We were directed by the Environment Warden, Jason Boom and our local Northern Rail Station Manager, Matt Gibson supplied a skip as well as muscle-power. Our resident poet, Andy Glover was there as a valuable pair of hands.

The rest of us (26 in total, excluding 6 month-old Tom who slept through it all) cleared over a dozen bags of litter from the station area.

Well done everyone.

Santas Station Saunter – again in 2008!

 

2008 Carol Pics will be posted soon – it was a great event -

super choirs from Burnley and Scout Road schools.

Muck, Steam and Brass

Station adoption work can be fun – but it can be hard work!

First of all, there is the opportunity to meet new friends from the village – people you probably have seen for years and never realised what interesting people they are.

Then there are the trips arranged by Northern Rail to show appreciation for our improvement work.

Last summer our next generation of volunteers went to Morecambe on a Stakeholders’ Special.

 

Last month, some of the ‘cultured’ ones went to a concert in the train depot in Manchester.

Pictures are here:-

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We have further trips in mind for our volunteers after the Yorkshire in Bloom judging.

So, it can be hard work – but it can also be fun – why not come and join us?

You never know where you might end up!

Further information on our work meetings and events can be found by scrolling down.

If you are not into physical gardening/construction-type work – but more into background admin work then you might phone me on 885154 – there is lots to do – particularly fund-raising for the community projects the Mytholmroyd Station Partnership has become known for nationally.

It has to be pointed out the the Station Partnership is NOT an ‘Action’ or campaign group – we simply work with Northern and Network Rail to improve our village railway station. We have an excellent relationship with managements of the public transport undertakings, and discuss any problems affecting our volunteers and Mytholmroyd.

Most of our meetings do not even mention trains – we have so many other projects to plan and implement.

Geoff Mitchell

Aren’t we Lucky?

A few months ago the Station Partnership embarked on improving the approach to the station by planning artwork in the window spaces of the old station building.

What to put in the spaces?

No problem – our young people at the local schools soon had the first artwork ready.

Under the guidance of artist Annie Lawson and their teacher Janet Normanton, Scout Road school students produced the first Window Art.

Here we see the Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire, Dr Ingrid Briscoe, with our talented students and on the right is Nigel Oliver from Green Business Network who sponsored this work.

More is planned, watch this space!