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Local conservation group, the Langdyke Countryside Trust, and Tarmac Limited, have announced that they will be working together to complete the creation and manage a large new wetland nature reserve between Etton and Maxey. [click to continue…]
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If you have taken a walk recently near the latest Tarmac site at Maxey, you will have noticed a huge new planting of trees and shrubs surrounding the area. [click to continue…]
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When Ron Cook came down to Maxey, seven years ago - following the death of Ron’s brother Adrian, who was landlord of the Blue Bell at the time, he was thinking about how he might leave the Sheffield area, where he was in the butchery trade and how he might persuade his hairdresser wife, Kathleen, to start a whole new life together running the pub. [click to continue…]
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Maxey village resident Debbie Hiller has been appointed as the Local Education Authority’s (LEA) governor at Northborough Primary School. She replaces Jo Newbold, who resigned after moving abroad. Debbie’s application was approved in December by Cllr Stephen Goldspink the city council’s cabinet member for education and children’s services.
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Harry and Edwin in front of a Maudsley, with a Beagle body – made in 1934 and taken into the Shaws fleet in 1939. The white paint on the front mudguards were done during the war, when you couldn’t use headlights at night
The Maxey coaching firm was founded in 1922 by Edwin ‘Teddy’ Shaw, the grandfather of the present family partners Richard, Christopher and Jane. Edwin came originally from the Leeds area and had a background in engineering, as in his younger days - in the late 1890s and early 1900s, he serviced and repaired washing machines, which must have been quite a novelty in those days! [click to continue…]
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