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Welcome to Barrow upon Soar
Mill Lane (4203) KT
Barrow is a residential and industrial village between Leicester and Loughborough. It stands on the east bank of the River Soar and the chief industries have been hosiery and knitwear. Boating is also important and the riverbank provides mooring for many houseboats. The emblem of the village is a PLESIOSAURUS, after a fossil found here in 1851.
This website is created by representatives of many Barrow organisations and there are links to the websites of others.
To contact the Settlement Administrators to create a totally new page, email any of the following people:
Site Administrators
Contact Details
Judith Rodgers - rodgers_david@hotmail.com
...... John Nurse - john@nursej.co.uk
.........Jane Tindle - jane@tindle01.fsnet.co.uk
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» Latest News
Posted:
Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:41
Centre Stage offers "Those Magnificent Men" on Sunday April 25th
We are delighted that the New Perspectives Theatre (who bought us The Hired Man last year) are back in Barrow with a new comic masterpiece, “Those Magnificent Men”. It’s the hilarious, heart-stopping story of Alcock and Brown as they make their bid to achieve the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight.
By any standards, it's a classic tale of plucky British pioneers – Captain John Alcock, dashing World War 1 fighter pilot and Lieutenant Arthur Whittam Brown, navigational genius with a gammy leg, huddled together against the elements in the tiny cockpit of their converted Vickers Vimy biplane, made almost entirely of wood and canvass – talk about winging it!
Now critically-acclaimed comedy-writing duo, Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon, have turned the story of the race to conquer the skies over the Atlantic into a fast and furious comic tour-de-force.
Thrill to the sheer adventuring spirit of our unlikely heroes, marvel at their daredevil aerial antics and wonder at how the whole bally thing is told with just two actors and a crate full of funny props. More »
The show will be on Sunday April 25th starting at 7.00pm in Humphrey Perkins Community Centre, Cotes Road, Barrow, LE12 8U
Tickets will be available at the Paper Shop at £7.00 (£8.00 on the door) and £6.00 (concessions) (£7.00 on the door). It’s a family-friendly show (suitable from 14+) so you can also buy a family ticket for £24.00.
For more information, phone Judith on 07718153117 « Less
Posted:
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03
The Rotary Club of the Soar Valley Charitable Trust – (registered number 1047245)
Casino Evening & Charity Auction
Friday 23rd April 2010 from 7.30pm
at the Marshall Honda Showrooms
Loughborough Road Mountsorrel
Admission £10 (to include initial chips for mock casino & light buffet supper) by ticket available from:
Marshall.Honda Rothley.Fisheries, White.Horse.Seagrave, or tel’ 01509 815954
Net proceeds for Rotary’s
“END POLIO NOW” campaign
Posted:
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:06
STOP PRESS Jelson Planning application
BRAG is delighted to report that Charnwood Borough Councillors have refused outline planning permission to the Jelson application to build a housing development behind Melton Road.
That doesn't mean the end of the case because Jelson may launch an appeal.
Visit the BRAG web pages here to keep up to date with what's going on.
