A HOST OF GOLDEN DAFFODILS
Lowry Hill Residents’ Association
www.lhra.org uk
At first there were carpets of vibrant
coloured crocuses around the estate,
awakening it from it’s winter sleep.
Issue 2 2014
Congratulations to our newest centenarian!
Then as the daffodils started to
fade the blossom appeared and
covered the trees in majestic
colours.
Mrs Mary Rayfield was 100 on
18th March. She was born in
Seal, Kent and moved to
Lowry Hill, Carlisle 39 years
ago. She spent her birthday
celebrating with her daughter
Sue, five grandchildren and
nine great grandchildren at
home. The following day they
all went to The Lane End pub
for a meal.
Other events
included a party organised by
Age Concern and a party
attended by neighbours and
helpers past and present to
thank them for all their help.
She received fifty four cards of
which the one in the picture
was from the Queen.
Mrs Rayfield put her longevity
down to working hard and not
smoking.
FORTHCOMING EVENT—SUNDAY, 6th JULY
KINGMOOR CRAZY BIRD & CREATURE TRAIL
See centre of this newsletter for your pull-out information sheet
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From the Chair
Report on the Lowry Hill Residents Association Annual General Meeting
The AGM took place on Monday 3rd of March in the Junior School Hall. Just over 30
people attended including representatives from the City Council and Councillors. All
the current members of the committee were reappointed to their respective roles and
the previous year’s minutes were approved. There is a healthy balance in the
association bank account (£5,137) with the usual amount of income from subscriptions
and advertising in the newsletter. We are again thankful to John Thwaites for his help
in auditing the accounts.
After some wide ranging discussions about areas that could do with improvements on
the estate it was finally agreed that the priority project that the association should focus
on is making something attractive and functional from the wild area behind the
playpark and beyond the school playing field.
A possible plan has been assembled and this is summarised in the current newsletter.
The Junior School is keen to be involved and a group will be established to push this
project forward. If you have any further ideas or suggestions please let us know.
The committee would like to thank retiring reps Ken Rangecroft and Roy
Latimier for all their help.
Councillor Alan Toole
Last month we received an e-mail from councillor Alan Toole informing us
that the County Cwere intending to make the operation of the traffic signals at the
junction of Lowry Hill Road and Kingstown Road full time at the same time as the
resurfacing work which has been undertaken. He said This presents the opportunity to
correct the road markings to align with DFT guidance and our practice throughout the
county. He then went on to say “This matter has been discussed with the Chair and
Vice Chair of the Local Committee and while they have been supportive of part-time
signals, it is felt that we would be placing the County Council at risk of potential claims
and loss of reputation by maintaining an unapproved road marking regime as well as
creating a potential hazard on the highway”.
This should not have a significant effect on traffic delays either on Scotland Road or
leaving Lowry Hill Road as current signal operation works on a demand led
protocol. Vehicles approaching the lights will trigger the signals and at night traffic
flows on Kingstown Road are sufficiently low to minimise the time required for the
signals to change. The work has now been carried out and it all seems to be working
well.
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DOG WALKING
SERVICE
Please ring Fraser
01228 521703
OFSTED REGISTERED CHILDMINDER ON LOWRY HILL
Providing a high standard of childcare in a friendly home environment
GRADED ‘OUTSTANDING’ BY OFSTED IN NOVEMBER 2012
For further information contact
Joanne Harrison 381347/07990 588576
ERIC HAGAN OPTICIANS
18 High Street, Longtown Tel: 791664
We specialise in providing a personal and professional service
including Digital Retinal Photography
Free eye care for the over 60s.
HOME VISITS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.
Free parking, easy access & disabled facilities
William Wright Decorators
Based on Lowry Hill
Quality papering, painting
and murals
20 years experience
Call: 07764951279
GEMSOFT COMPUTERS
Over 20 years experience in solving computer problems including viruses,
spy ware and broadband installation, in your home.
Weekends & evenings possible. No fix – no fee.
Also hardware sales, networks, upgrades, printers, scanners etc., software,
repairs and advice. Call Andrew on 547444
Mike Greenslade Home Improvements - Established 1992
Bathroom Kitchen Bedroom Design Supply Installation
All work carried out and project managed personally
For a no obligation quote contact Mike Greenslade
Telephone 01228 536284/07833711766
13 Teasdale Road Lowry Hill
MATHS AND ENGLISH
121 confidence building concentration
skills for 5 to 16 year olds.
Qualified experienced teacher
£15 for 45 mins
Jo Grundy 01228 525284
BUNNY BEDS
Holiday care for rabbits
and guinea pigs
Hutches food etc provided
Fresh vegetables daily
Telephone 531275
D&D Mc WILLIAMS OPTICIANS
27 Church Street, Stanwix, Carlisle. Tel 510896
NHS and Private Services, Glaucoma & Diabetic camera screening
Home Visits for the Housebound. Free parking with disabled access
SEASONAL PROMOTIONS ON A WIDE RANGE OF FRAMES,
INCLUDING DESIGNER, SUNGLASSES & CHILDRENS
SM LIGHTFOOT JOINERY CONTRACTOR
BUY WITH CONFIDENCE—TRADING STANDARDS APPROVED
Joinery, glazing, UPVC windows & doors,
garage doors, double glazing repairs.
Contact Mike on
Tel: 529954 Mobile: 07738817737
CRYSTAL CLEAN CARPETS
Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning
Free Estimates Fully Insured
NCCA Approved Technician
Tel 01228 590636 or
07870643168
10% off with this newsletter
Birdies Gardens
Grass mowing/Hedge Cutting
General garden tidy
Pressure Washing
Tel. Andy on 318809 or
07794509530
RELAXATION/MEDITATION
Small friendly classes held in my
home Monday 7 30 to 9pm
Thursday 10 to 11.30.am
£5 per class
Contact Jo Grundy 525284
FLOORSHOP - ESTABLISHED 40 YEARS
Friendly local company, free estimates and home sampling.
Carpets, Vinyl's, Laminate, Karndean & Commercial work
All Fitted at reasonable rates. Expert fitting service with quality
underlay's etc. Also supplying Vertical, Roller & Venetian Blinds.
137 Botchergate Carlisle. Tel 01228 525910
SEP CONSTRUCTION LTD
Extensions, alterations
and property maintenance.
Landscaping and Gardening services.
For free estimates
contact Steve on 07769156160
FOR SALE
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Lowry Hill Residents’
Association Newsletter is
distributed four times a
year
to around 1,000 homes
ERIC HAGAN OPTICIANS
Market Place, Brampton Tel: 016977 42703
Patient-centred and friendly family eye care
Free eye care & spectacles for children. Digital Retinal Photograph now
undertaken. Wide selection of frames and lenses.
SEE THE DIFFERENCE!
MOKYFIT—THE ULTIMATE DANCE WORKOUT
Chart Hits, Laughter Fits, Bouncing Hair
Tuesdays—Kingmoor Junior School 6.30-7 30pm
£5 per class or 5 classes for £20 No need to book—just turn up
FIRST CLASS FREE TO NEW CUSTOMERS
For more information phone 07578401010 or visit mokyfit.co.uk
Your message in 6 lines.
Choose single or double box
To advertise contact Jenny
Morton on 529864
PC FIXER
Computer repairs at your home or business. Is your computer running
slow?
Crashing? Having problems with your broadband or wireless?
Free Anti Virus! Thousands of satisfied customers. 8 years of trading.
Give us a call on Mobile: 07984 441329 or 01228 265001
email: [email protected]
QUALITY GARAGE DOORS
All types of garage doors supplied, fitted and repaired.
Up and over doors, roller doors, sectional doors
Remote control systems
Existing garage doors converted to remote control
Contact Phil on 532495 or 07860206651 28 Esk Road, Lowry Hill
1 to 1 Pilates & Yoga Tuition
Qualified experienced instructor
Call: 07825066477
£15 per 45 minute session
MOKY KIDZ-AGES 3-12
With Emma & Andrea
EVENTS-PARTIES
(games, dancing & surprises)
MOKYKIDZ CLASSES
visit mokyfit.co.uk 07578401010
Steve Wakefield Photography
Weddings, Portraits, Parties and Events
Full portable studio for home/event/passport photography.
Restoration and Enhancement Service
Example DVD on request
01228 597307 or [email protected]
SHARP PLASTERING
Plastering and Damp Proofing (Sovereign approved)
Floor and Wall Tiling
General home improvements
Call Tony 631883/0774695834
65 Lowry Gardens
FOR SALE
FOR SALE
BABYSITTING SERVICE
16 year old. Living locally.
Studying Childcare.
Phone Georgia 01228 535947
IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE SMELL FROM
West Scottish Lamb Abattoir
Contact Switchboard number 01228 819805
If you have a complaint they will take your names and number and pass
this on to the relevant member of staff who will get back to you.
HOUGHTON NURSERY GROUP
Highly qualified and motivated staff
Day nursery with breakfast, lunch and after school clubs operating term time
Holiday club during school holidays Open 8am to 6pm for ages 2½ to 11 years
Competitively priced Tel: 01228 558888
www.houghtonnursery.com Email [email protected]
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Report form The Police
We have been working closely with Kingmoor School
and the Traffic Wardens over the last few months attending the school at peak times to
patrol the on going parking issues. Tickets have been issued and parking badges have
been checked. We will continue to monitor the area when we can and take positive
action where required.
We have a youth club on a Tuesday night from 1830 to 2030hrs for 11yrs to 15yrs at
the Belah Community Centre. It is run by SPAA and the Police attend. We are looking
for new people to join us we do activities at the centre and just recently we attended
the Eden Rock Club so please encourage your children to come along. It costs 50p.
We have a new member of the team PCSO 5327 KATIE LAFFTERY
Please report any Anti-Social Behaviour to the police by calling 101.
THE WOMEN’S INSTITUTE
The Women’s Institute (WI) is a National organisation, formed in Great Britain in 1915
to revitalise rural communities and encourage women to become more involved in
producing food during the First World War. It has since expanded to include
educational opportunities of all kinds to all its Members everywhere becoming a Town
as well as a Country organisation some 30 or so years ago, when Lowry Hill WI was
formed.
The idea had started in Canada in 1897, when a countrywoman realised that her lack
of simple medical knowledge had contributed to the death of her child and steps were
taken to enable countrywomen to meet and acquire knowledge to enhance their living
standards. It isn’t affiliated to any religious or political group, but wields a
powerful clout with its National Campaigns (this year’s is aiming to increase human
Organ Donation for transplants) and is now fast expanding in towns and amongst
younger women, who enjoy the opportunity to listen to live and enthusiastic Speakers
and to try out new skills and ideas for themselves.
LOWRY HILL WOMEN’S INSTITUTE meets at 7.30pm on the third Wednesday of
every month in the warm and welcoming Kingmoor Community & Business Centre,
attached to the Junior School in Liddle Close. On May 21 st, Members will be reading
their favourite Poems; on June 18th we’ll have a Seated Aerobics session and July
16th a Jewellery Making demonstration.
We’re also committed to helping with The Kingmoor Crazy Bird & Creature Trail in July
and have several invitations to visit other WIs. This year we are supported by the Belah
Community Forum Grants Fund, ensuring us a high quality of speaker.
New members made welcome. Come and try us as a visitor for £3 per night. Details
from Angela on 01228 535420. Search on-line for WI Cumbria, look under Local WIs
on http://www.ccfwi.org.uk or Kingmoor B&C Centre on http://www.kingmoorcbc.co.uk/
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Cumbria Trading Standards warns about cold callers
Now that spring is here and summer is on its way, Trading Standards would like to
remind residents that incidences of cold callers going from door to door tend to
increase in the warmer months. The advice is not to deal with cold callers at all
because residents might be charged high prices for work that is not up to standard and
then find it impossible to get redress when things go wrong.
If anyone calls at your door offering to do roofing work, tarmacking and paving,
gardening work and tree felling, or anything else, the advice is to simply say NO and
refuse to engage with them. If the cold caller becomes a nuisance and refuses to
leave, call 08454 040506 to report the matter to Trading Standards. Alternatively call
the police on 101, or in the case of an emergency where there is a risk of injury or
serious damage to property, dial 999.
Residents are also reminded that Trading Standards has its own trusted trader scheme
called Buy With Confidence. Every member of the Buy With Confidence Scheme has
been thoroughly checked and must provide references before they are accepted onto
the scheme.
The following are members in or near the Carlisle area and if you are contemplating
having any work done please consider contacting them:
SC Joinery of Blackwell Carlisle – call 01228 523421 or 07706 170895 – Small job
friendly (business happy to consider work/orders for £75 or under)
JJ Lattimer of Mealsgate, Carlisle – call 016973 71495 – Federation of Master Builder
member and NHBC Register of House Builders and Developers
Border Locks and Security – Cotehill, Carlisle – call 01228 560153 or 07899 887572 –
Small job friendly
Derek Jones, Home Maintenance and Renovation, Wigton – call 016973 43989 or
07787 796641 Small job friendly
SM Lightfoot Joinery Contractor, Carlisle – call 01228 529954 or 07738 817737 –
Small job friendly
North Lakes Property Maintenance Ltd, Blackford, Carlisle – 01228 672097 or
07901931968 Small job friendly SK Décor – Maryport – 07739 918248 – decorating
and tiling
Buy With Confidence members also include other types of business such as:
Jardine Finan Ltd, Parkhouse, Carlisle – call 01228 406397. This company is a firm of
independent financial advisors and is a member of the Financial Services Authority
Paws to Splash of Armathwaite, Carlisle – call 016974 72232. Hydrotherapy for dogs
– Small job friendly
Paws to Rest Pet Bereavement Service, Armathwaite, Carlisle – call 016974 72232.
Cremation and burial services for companion animals, including memorials, pet coffins
etc – Small job friendly
For a full list of Buy With Confidence members go to www.buywithconfidence.gov.uk or call 01539 713594 to
request a member list be sent to you by post.’
Trading Standards is keen to welcome more members onto the scheme so if you know of a reputable and
reliable business please mention Buy With Confidence to them and ask them to contact 01539 713594 for an
application pack.
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Useful Information
Lowry Hill Residents’ Association
Chairman, Andrew Rowell
Vice Chairman, Chris Ormandy
Treasurer, Jenny Morton
Patch Secretary, Susan Button
Minutes Secretary, Catherine Herd
Newsletter Editor, Barbara Bray
Carlisle City Council, Civic Centre
Customer Contact Centre
This is the first point of contact for residents enquiring, face to face, by telephone or email about Carlisle City Council services
Opening hours: Monday to Thursday 9.00am to 5.00pm. Friday 9.00am to 4.00pm Many
services are available online at www.carlisle.gov.uk
592825
530369
529864
07970212668
598484
524906
817000
01228 817200
Home:
01228 515486
City Councillor David Morton
Mobile
0771 992 7758
City Councillor Patricia Vasey
Home
City Councillor Gareth Ellis
01228 593568
Work
County Councillor Alan Toole
01228 817068
Home:
01228 530681
Cumbria County Council
606060
Adult Social Care
227000
Children’s Social Care
227002
Comments, compliments and complaints
0800 1218800
Education
226877
Highways Hotline
0845 6096609
Library
227310
Police: Non-emergency calls
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Kingmoor Junior School
409715
Kingmoor Nursery and Infant School
558892
Kingmoor Business Centre (Adult Education Classes)
598484
Lowry Hill Residents’ Association Seasonal Newsletter Schedule
Issue
Print Deadline
Delivered to Homes
Issue 1 (Winter)
31 January
February/March
Issue 2 (Spring)
30 April
May/June
Issue 3 (Summer)
31 July
August/September
Issue 4 (Autumn)
30 October
November
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Dear Residents
The summer term has started with of flurry of activity I wished to
write to keep you up to date with events here at the Junior School.
Our pupils shone in the recent Carlisle & District Music and Drama
Festival. Many pupils took part in solo, duet, and ensemble
classes, with tremendous success. Our choir finished joint 2 nd overall, with our orchestra
winning their class. Needless to say, we were so very proud of all of the pupils who
represented the school with such aplomb.
We continue to compete in a full range of sporting events. We always ensure our
provision caters for those who wish to compete, along with those who wish to take part
in more recreational sporting activities. We have recently been crowned County
Champions in both the U9 Mixed Floor & Vault Competition and the U11 Key Steps
Competition, and our Tag-Rugby team have again qualified for the County Finals taking
place in Cockermouth later this month.
After 25 years of exemplary service as both a classroom teacher and a leader of the
school, it is with sadness that I share the news that Ms. Fawcett, our Deputy
Headteacher will be leaving her post at the end of this academic year. Ms. Fawcett has
had such an influential role in our school over the years, and has helped shape the
future of literally hundreds of pupils and staff. She will leave with our very best wishes.
I am sure that it will not have escaped your attention that the expansion project began
over the Easter break. The work, which will add two classrooms and a new learning
resource area to the Junior School, has been progressing well. At the most recent site
meeting the contractors (Jacobs Stobbarts Ltd) reported that they are still on schedule,
with the aim being to complete the work ready for the new term in September. I will keep
you posted.
Our PFTA continue to work tirelessly to support the pupils in school; a recent bingo night
was very-well attended. From the 23rd – 25th May a team of staff, parents and Governors
will be completing the Coast 2 Coast Cycle Route to raise funds for new library books
for school. A children’s event has been arranged for Saturday 10th May at the VOSA site
where they have been challenged to work as a team to cycle the 145 mile distance. Half
of all the proceeds collected from the events will be given to the
‘Help for Heroes’ Charity.
Yours sincerely
Mr. Andrew Cairns
Headteacher
Kingmoor Junior School
Mrs. Zoe Turner
Headteacher Kingmoor Nursery
and Infant School
The building work has finally begun at both Kingmoor schools. On our Nursery and
Infant site we are getting an extension of two brand new classrooms to be built on the
grass area near the field. In addition we are having the main building completely
rewired and a new heating system installed and, at the moment, it is this work that is
causing the most disruption in and around school.
We severely tested the patience of the residents of Hether Drive who had a crane and
several huge wagons passing their homes at hourly intervals on 10 th April while a
Portakabin was being installed on site. That has given us two extra classrooms so we
can move children away from the areas being worked on so thanks to you all for
keeping the road clear.
The internal work is being carried out two classes at a time and Classes 1 and 2 are
currently working in their new surroundings and enjoying their adventure. Each pair of
classes will have around 3 weeks in the Portakabin while the wiring and heating is
upgraded.
We are looking forward to receiving three new classes of Reception children again in
September which means we will have reached our full capacity. With the extra space
we will be able to offer 52 places in our Nursery class plus “wrap-around” childcare for
up to 32 pre-school children meaning that working Parents will be able to access full
day-care from 8 am till 5.45 pm each day, if needed, including Breakfast Club and
After School Club. The expansion also means that we will be advertising four new
employment vacancies for teaching and support staff to start working from
September.
We will continue to support residents by reminding parents to park considerately and
where possible walk their children to school.
SERVICE 508 - LOWRY HILL TO THE LAKES.
There is a new direct Summer Bus Service this year from Kingstown via Carlisle Bus
Station, Penrith, Patterdale, Kirkstone to Windermere and back.
Departs Kingstown (California Road) at 9.19am, gets back at 7.24pm. NB It does not
go round Lowry Hill - catch it on the Kingstown Road.
No changing buses required. Runs at weekends only in term time, every day in the
school holidays, until November 4th 2014.
You can get a good day out in the Lakes without hanging around for buses or paying
high car parking charges.
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March 2014- Proposed Lowry Hill Wildlife Area
The diagram below shows the location of the ‘wild area’ which we would like to be
gradually converted into a ‘wildlife area.’
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