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February 2009: 'Awards for All' Success
The Society has been fortunate in being given a grant of £2445 from 'Awards for All' to help put on the Village Voices exhibition, in the Village Hall, Pearson Hall, Sonning from Friday 11th to Sunday 13th September to coincide with Heritage Open Days Weekend.
The funding will also help us take the exhibition in January to March 2010 to MERL, the Museum of English Rural LIfe, in Reading.
The Civic Trust Welcomes Sonning & Sonning Eye
The Sonning & Sonning Eye Society has just heard that The Civic Trust has accepted its application for affiliation. The Trust is a national organisation founded after the Second World War “to foster high standards of planning and architecture”. Although focused originally on towns and cities where poor quality development replaced bomb-damaged areas, it is now much broader in scope, and many village-based societies like our own have joined it. For example within the South East, Datchet (Berkshire), Long Crendon (Buckinghamshire), Titchfield (Hampshire), Garsington (Oxfordshire) and Windlesham (Surrey) all have societies similarly affiliated.
The Trust works in a number of ways:
- Supporting societies like ours with advice, technical assistance and funding for special initiatives such as environmental improvement or management training for those co-ordinating local regeneration projects;
- Raising awareness of excellence in development standards, architecture, conservation and green space management, through for example the Heritage Open Days, in which we plan to participate on 11 September 2005 (look out for more news on this in the July Parish Magazine); and
- Campaigning for changes to national and local policy.
The Trust’s purpose guided the establishment of the Sonning & Sonning Eye Society.
[This report appears in Sonning Parish Magazine, May 2005]
Missing milestone traced!
Winner of the Missing Milestone competition in the Winter Newsletter is Ali Campbell and wee helpers of Parkway Drive.
The missing milestone is located in Old Bath Road, Charvil, outside the Texaco petrol station. It is 19th century with incised Roman lettering. On the West face it reads "Reading 4, Newbury 21", and on the East face it reads "Maidenhead 9, Colnbrook 18, London 35".
Well done to Ali! As Ali remarked in her entry: “Presumably Slough had little importance in those days!”
The next competition will appear in the Summer Newsletter in August.
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