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Better Barrow
Welcome to the updated Better Barrow website. Within this site you should find information on all our future, current and past activities. We welcome any ideas about how to improve the site and features that you’d like to see added. Please forgive any glitches – we’re new at this! Comments may be made from the Contact page.
The Better Barrow Community Project was formed in January 2012. It is a registered charity, the purpose of which is to improve and enhance the environment of the village and raise awareness of its heritage. For more information about Better Barrow see the About page.
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Don't forget the Wobbly Wheelers this Sunday 15th on aid of Aaron's Battle. Sign in from 10am if you're riding, starts 11am from the playing field. Full details on the Barrow Meridian Rotary Club website,
Thank you to all those people who share the Better Barrow posts and comment on our events.
For those of you new to the site (or new to Barrow) we hold several events throughout the year, the main one being the Wheelbarrow & Open Gardens weekend which is always the first weekend in June (in 2019, that will be June 1st & 2nd).
In addition to the Ceilidh, there is a table top sale on 6th October (never too early to book a table, just e-mail betterbarrow@gmail.com) and as always we will be supporting the Rotary Club Christmas Fair in December.
A date for your diary:
Sat Sept 22nd - Ceilidh with the Ermine Street Band, 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Licensed bar.
Tickets £5 (£7 otd) from Barrow News or e-mail betterbarrow@gmail.com or wegottickets.com/betterbarrow
wegottickets.com
Photos of most of the barrows and some of the gardens now available at betterbarrow.org/better-barrow-picture-gallery-copy-2/. More photos to come in the next few days
www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids/see-video-pictures-wonderful-wheelbarrows-1635206
Video and pictures from village wheelbarrow and open gardens event
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Barrow-Upon-Humber's Wheelbarrow and Open Gardens Weekend has featured a record number of entriesBetter Barrow's annual Wheelbarrow and Open Garden Weekend is now behind us - we hope that you all enjoyed yourselves. I will be posting photos of all the barrows, open gardens and pictures of the events, etc. over the next couple of days - but there are a lot to go through so please be patient! In the meantime Better Barrow would like to say a few thank-yous:
Thank You to everyone who helped get the Market Place tidied up for the weekend, with special thanks to Maddie, David and Jason who all put many hours in to cut grass, weed, plant and many other things
Thank You to all our volunteers over the weekend, in the Market Place, in the Tea Room - everywhere
Thank You to the yarn bombers who livened up the Market Place
Thank You to all the stall holders who filled the Market Place
Thank You to the entertainers - the Buskers, Nutty Norman and the Barrow Village band
Thank You to the photographers who recorded everything for posterity
Thank You to everyone who did a wheelbarrow and opened their gardens - without you there wouldn't be a Wheelbarrow and Open Garden Weekend!
Thank You to everyone who visited both from the village and from outside - we had lots of visitors from all over
Thank You to anyone I've forgotten to include (and apologies for so doing!)
and finally a bit of trumpet blowing - Thank you to the Better Barrow Committee who organised the whole thing!
Setting up for day 2, weather looks good so come on down to the Better Barrow Wheelbarrow Weekend
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Better Barrow Ceilidh
Better Barrow Ceilidh 22nd SEPTEMBER 7.30 pm BARROW VILLAGE HALL Licensed Bar Tickets £5 (£7 on the day) from Barrow News or contact: betterbarrow@gmail.com or call: 01469 530818 / 531280 or buy online...
Barrow Meridian Wobbly Wheels
Sunday July 15th 2018 SPONSORED 10 MILE BIKE RIDE 5 MILE ROUTE PROVIDED FOR YOUNGER RIDERS IN aid of Aaron’s BATtle Cancer charity for full details click here
Three Voices Walk along the Humber
The info for the next Three Voices Humber walk is in the attached poster (please click on it to see the compete picture). Please note the meeting place which is different from...
