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| Tim Re-Opens Post Office Cookham Dean August 11th |
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 Thanks to David Balston for posting this news to the goodies-l mailing list:
From http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/4517331.Goodies_star_to_re_open_Post_Office/:
Goodies star Tim Brooke Taylor to re-open Post Office in Cookham Dean
29th July 2009
By James Nadal
COMIC actor Tim Brooke Taylor has added to Post Office campaigners' cheer by announcing he will be the star guest at the re-opening of the Cookham Dean amenity.
Villagers have welcomed the move for the service to move into the Jolly Farmer pub in Bigfrith Lane - just 400 yards away from where the amenity was based until it closed in February.
Goodies star Mr Brooke Taylor will be the star guest at a celebratory re-opening, which will take place on Tuesday August 11.
Cookham musicians The Fabulous Shirtlifters will provide jazz entertainment.
The decision to move the service into the pub follows a public consultation and residents now hope the next step may is to bring back a village shop.
Elizabeth Runnacles rallied villagers to find a new location for the Post Office when it shut and helped form the Cookham Dean Post Office Project Committee.
She said: “I'm extremely glad that at long last we are going to have a post office back. We would like to be back at the old site but this is the best we can do in the meantime.
“We hope we can develop a shop in the village as well.”
There used to be a convenience store in the same building as the post office.
Mrs Runnacles said: “It's vital for so many people to have a post office here, for the elderly and people with children especially because the nearest a couple of miles away.”
The pub is owned by 60 villagers who bought the freehold to ensure it was not redeveloped. It has been leased by Laura Kelsey for six years.
The landlady said she hoped to recreate the community spirit in her native Ireland where the combination of pub and post office is traditional.
“Everyone has been really enthusiastic about it which is good, I think lots of people will be coming up for a pint and some stamps,” she said.
The new service will operate as open plan from the restaurant area of the public house, and there will be a low-level serving counter and hearing loop.
Opening times will be from 3pm to 5.30pm Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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| Tim at November "Last Night of the Proms" concert in Buxton |
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Thanks to wackywales for posting the following in the club's forums:
Tim will be compering a Last Night of the Proms concert in November in Buxton. There are further details in the Derby evening telegraph - http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/theatre/Tim-compere-patriotic-evening-entertainment/article-1191622-detail/article.html - and the text of the article is below.
Tim to compere patriotic evening of entertainment
BUXTON Opera House will stage a special gala fund-raising concert, A Night At The Proms, later this year.
The flag-waving, fund-raising evening in aid of Buxton's Children's Theatre Appeal is on November 21 at 7.30pm and will be compered by Buxton's own Tim Brooke-Taylor. The event includes the 40-piece City Concert Orchestra featuring musicians from all the leading UK symphony orchestras.
Patrons can expect to be treated to The Dambusters March, Fingal's Cave, The Radetzky March, Enigma Variations and Jerusalem and Pomp and Circumstance. The City Concert Orchestra will be conducted by Adrian Jackson
Tickets for A Night At The Proms are priced from £15 to £35. Call 0845 127 2190 or visit www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
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