A NEW £1 million-plus privately-operated cemetery has opened near Keighley Tarn. Those behind the scheme – the first of its kind in the Bradford district for over a century – say the project is already providing a potential model for similar initiatives nationally. When plans to turn the old Braithwaite Edge quarry site into a burial ground – accommodating up to 2,000 graves – were first put forward by Keighley Community Cemetery, there was fierce opposition from some residents. Concerns were voiced that water courses could be contaminated and there were fears over increased traffic levels. But there was also strong support for the scheme and the plans were given the go-ahead by Bradford Council s regulatory and appeals committee in 2015, with councillors voting six-to-one in favour.
A NEW £1 million-plus privately-operated cemetery has opened near Keighley Tarn. Those behind the scheme – the first of its kind in the Bradford district for over a century – say the project is already providing a potential model for similar initiatives nationally. When plans to turn the old Braithwaite Edge quarry site into a burial ground – accommodating up to 2,000 graves – were first put forward by Keighley Community Cemetery, there was fierce opposition from some residents. Concerns were voiced that water courses could be contaminated and there were fears over increased traffic levels. But there was also strong support for the scheme and the plans were given the go-ahead by Bradford Council s regulatory and appeals committee in 2015, with councillors voting six-to-one in favour.
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The Save the Cherries meeting at the Winter Gardens in January 1997. REFLECTING on Christine Thackray’s letter (April 14) on the demise of Bournemouth’s Winter Gardens, I also recall the much-loved heartbeat of this venue – more than an orchestral hall. A multi-purpose building with acoustics for each and every occasion, which I had attended with my girlfriend Kath Shepherd, a trainee nurse, as teenagers. It would be a meeting in the Winter Gardens on a cold January evening in 1997, which pulled at the heartstrings, when an estimated 2,000 loyal Cherries fans, crowded into the concert hall to save AFC Bournemouth going out of business.
It must have been good because I remember it to this day. I would have been eight in 1945 and I remember how wonderful it was. There must have been about a hundred children sitting at long trestle tables, first of all rather quiet and shy but that didn t last long as the excitement grew and then the Burlington Hotel in Sea Road rang with laughter and chatter as the soldiers went the rounds, making sure we all had plenty of jelly, ice cream and cakes. They were so kind. Being children we didn t really suffer during the war because our parents took the brunt, they were the ones who had all the worries.