Showing posts with label NWTRA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NWTRA. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

The AGM of the New Way Tenants Residents Association (NWTRA) in Ormskirk is on Wed 29th February


A recent message received from Ormskirk resident, Jane Thompson "A huge favour, could you advertise the AGM of New Way Tenants Residents Association in Ormskirk.

Life In Another Town is happy to help promote local not-for-profit organisations.

NWTRA local contact telephone numbers card
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CALLING ALL RESIDENTS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS;
Station Approach
Railway Approach
Station Road
Chestnut Court
Hardacre Street
Burscough Street
Hants Lane
Scarisbrick Street
Clucas Gardens
Jubilee Avenue
Owen Avenue

The AGM of the NWTRA (New Way Tenants Residents Association) is on Wednesday 29th February 2012 at 7pm, Hants Lane College, Ormskirk.

 All residents are urged to attend to support their local residents association.  We recently expanded and now represent approximately 324 households.  www.newwaytenants.wordpress.com
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Thursday, February 02, 2012

Squatters & squatting in Burscough West Lancashire Video interview with Ormskirk resident Mary Wright


Squatters and squatting in Burscough West Lancashire Video interview with Ormskirk resident Mary Wright

In a video interview, life time resident of West Lancashire, Mary Wright (no relation to local Life In Another Town blogger Matthew J Wright), gives a first hand account of living as a squatter on the Royal Navy Air Station HMS Ringtail, Burscough, West Lancashire following World War II.

Memorial Plaque, RNAS Burscough, H.M.S. Ringtail.  (photo by Graham Crisp)


Mary recalls how as a young child, her Mother and Father moved back down from Glasgow, where she had been born, to Burscough; the village where her Father had grown up.

The Nissen huts, which once served as accommodation for Naval personnel, would now serve, for the next several years, as badly needed housing for local families.

To see photos of the Burscough airfield visit the website Airfield Information Exchange

To illustrate how the squatting became a local issue, there appeared on the 26th June 1947, in the Ormskirk Advertiser newspaper ,a short notice of a meeting by the Housing Committee of Ormskirk Urban District Council;