Hi Again

Hi again

Its official the Miners Welfare is to change its name to and wait for this The Askern Sports and Pastime Limited in other words they are to become a limited company with the committee men attaining directorship status all this happens on Friday 27^th of June 2008 at the A.G.M. Spoke with committee and they say it will be for the best we shall see. They are dropping the miners tag, as they want to be seen as a progressive club. I myself am quite proud of being an ex miner and why they can not see there way to keeping the word in the name of the new building is beyond me and one or two people were disgruntled about this matter also.

The shakers building has hit a problem with the builder going bankrupt it is 95 percent completed and I am sure that the people at N.D.R.T. will see it through to completion shame it is not ready yet but watch this space.

More on the lakeside it is now in need of draining off this is D.M.B.C. responsibility

And I hope to speak with them soon it is quite appalling that people cannot walk around the perimeter of the lake they have to walk on the muddy grass banks to get round, how someone in a wheelchair would manage I don’t know but hopefully it will soon be put right.

Lookout for a name change very soon as we shall be altering the name of the blog in the near future, if any one reading this has any suggestion for a new name then please let me know.

That’s all for now folks so here are some pictures of miners and of the old Askern Main Colliery will update next week

UPDATE

Hi-again Sid Roe here with an update,

Well they finally got to clean out the lake some three weeks after asking for it to be done did a good job too lets hope they keep it up.

Sorry about not being able to update for such a long time but this was due to me having a new central heating system installed this has now been done so were back.

It looks like the miners welfare is going to be knocked down to make way for a new and smaller club the old one is just too big and it is uneconomical so the committee have submitted plans to the council for a new club to be built.

The lakeside have some new inhabitants in the form of cygnets and ducklings no report on when the work is to start but I have been told that the new bridge and the other work will be completed by the end of September which September remains to be seen.

The 61/62 Reunion are to hold a jumble sale on the 28^th of June round at the spa club.

I am giving a talk along with a slide show on old Askern on the 23 and 24^th of June 2008 this will be in the Askerne center which is lakeside.

Permission for the car show and hog roast have not been given this was due to the council not fully understanding what it was about they had some idea it was to be a car boot sale where they got that from I do not know anyway that’s it for now folks will update again at the weekend in the meantime here are some more photos

Sorry

Sorry for the lack of updates as I am currently having central heating fitted