Author: thorntonvillage

Tired of the cold winter and soaring energy costs?

If you have an open coal fire or multi fuel stove, a new local business in Newbold Heath is selling 20kg sacks of smokeless fuel at a great price with door-to-door delivery.

Our next working party is this Saturday, 10 until 2 pm  It will be primarily to tidy up after the winds of recent weeks.

Jobs include:

Tidying up after the soil bank removal

Collecting branches etc

Removing leaves off public footpath

Tidying edges of church path

Plus everything else you would like to do

Hope you can join us even it’s for a short time.  Please wear stout shoes and gloves, and bring any tools you think would be helpful, plus a drink.

Shirley G

We are holding a Clear Out Sale on Saturday 1st March 

11 am until 2 pm at Thornton Community Centre, LE67 1AH 

It’s an opportunity to find new treasures and gifts at bargain prices.  There will be two rooms full of a huge variety of items for sale.  

Bacon and sausage baps, and hot drinks will be available

It’s also a chance to meet up with friends.

What’s not to like!!  Do hope that you can come along. 

Entrance is 50p for everyone over 14.

Last year the church was placed on the Heritage at Risk register due to internal cracking of the walls.  The Historic Churches Support Officer has requested that we monitor these.  Hopefully it will be shown that these cracks are not a problem.  The building is between 700 and 800 years old after all. 

This event is being run by the Friends of St Peter’s fundraising group, raising money for St Peter’s Church, Thornton.  We are currently raising funds to help repair a roof gully and for some internal plaster works.  There is also some work to be carried out in the churchyard which involves moving a bank of soil.  

For information about the church visit http://www.j22churches.org.uk

Shirley Garlick

Wednesday 5^th February 2 to 4 pm

Our next afternoon is this Wednesday 5^th February.

Please do come and join us for a happy afternoon at Thornton Community Centre, LE67 1AH. 

Everyone is welcome, including well behaved dogs on leads, to drop in at any time and stay for as long as you like.   Just come along and see what we are all about.

Cake, tea & coffee and time to chat.  Games, puzzles and books (to borrow too).  No charge.

Please do let us know if you need a lift.  Email shirley.garlick19@btinternet.com

Hope to see you.

The rural hub offering advice on finances, well being,  health, family, schooling or just for a good chat will visit us this time.

 

Thank you Thornton Nurseries!

Thornton ladies luncheon group met at their cafe for a light lunch and natter last Monday.

If you haven’t visited yet, do go.

As well as being stocked with a variety of very well-nurtured, really good plants and shrubs, the cafe is excellent.

I have visited the cafe with two different groups of people in the last 2 weeks.  On each occasion we have been made most welcome and the accompanying dogs feel very at home mingling with the nurseries 3 dogs. Thank you.

The two different homemade soups, and the sausage and bacon baps, cooked as needed, were all delicious, really tasty and the hot chocolate is the best for miles around. Oh and don’t forget the cakes!

Excellent hosts. Thank you from us all.

We will be back.

Shirley G

Thornton luncheon & book club

Dust off your “blue suede shoes”, break out of your “jailhouse rock” for “one night” here at the Bricklayers Arms.
“It’s now or never” to come and “rock a hula” with us.
You won’t have “suspicious minds” at this “heartbreak hotel”. Enjoy a night of “burning love” where “you’ll never walk alone” in “the promised land”

Groby players next production will be performed in the Village Hall, Groby on March13th/14th/15th 2025.

The play is a comedy  entitled ‘The fall and rise of Gordon Grimshaw  by Sandy Truman.

Mr and Mrs Grimshaw have retired to the seaside in a bungalow, for a quieter life, but they are soon in the drawn into the colourful lives of their neighbours, and have to deal with a used car salesman and his amorous wife, excercise enthusiasts, obstructive sisters, seagulls and thats not all……

Tickets priced £8 will be available by email grobyplayers@yahoo.com  or message on our FB page

Or Tel 0116 2877373 . Tel/text 07790861033

Also in Groby Library from February 8th every Saturday morning  10am-12

Cafe style seating, BYO refreshments 

Happy New Year to you all.

I think we will have a working party this Saturday, from 10 am to 12 md,  but to just collect up fallen branches etc. and rake up the leaves on the public path to try and make things look a bit tidy after all the storms.

If you are able to join us that would be great even if it’s only for 30 mins or so. 

Please wear stout shoes and gloves and bring anything you might find useful – and a drink.   Oh, and wrap up warm!!!

I will sort out future dates for the year shortly.

Shirley G