Thanks to the coverage of our exhibition Once Upon a Time in Revoe we have had many more people come to view the
paintings and displays than we would have.
Residents have been in and had a cry and a laugh about the past.
The displays now have extra stickers with corrections and additions from locals, and despite all our appeals there have been
complaints that "such and such" a family has been left out.
So people are now able to bring in their old family photos and stories and add them to the collection in the form of an album.
The exhibition runs until December 6 so please bring any of your Revoe photos and stories for us to add to the collection.
The album will eventually be given to the Family History Centre.
We have had kind offers of donations from local businesses for the Revoe OAP
Christmas party and are well on the way to being able to order the cultural plaque to commemorate Ibbison Street.
On display is a sketch of the Revoe Inn. Does anyone have information on Robert
Lingard, son of Joseph and Elizabeth,
former publicans there?
He was 18 in 1901. Did he have children? If so, are they still living?
Do they have any photos of him or – better still – his parents?
Joseph had one arm and Elizabeth pulled the pints, only allowing men one pint after work before they went home to their wives to hand over their wages. I'm sure it didn't
always work but its a nice story!
If you have information call me on (01995) 672655
Lyn Butterworth
Blott Artist Studios
King Street, Blackpool



Government should fund free schemes
The budgetary pressures
imposed on Wyre Council by the Government have been clearly outlined (The Gazette, November 13).
The response from Coun Clive Grunshaw was, sadly, typical of him and I do wonder when, if ever, he is going to put the
interests of Wyre residents first.
Wyre Conservatives are in favour of the concessionary bus fares scheme and the free
swimming scheme but we want the Government to fully fund their own initiatives.
At a recent Wyre full council meeting Coun Grunshaw
defended the Government's under funding of concessionary fares and yet the leader of the Labour run County Council has written to the Government to demand urgent action to address an under funding of £2.7 million in
Lancashire.
Wyre's budget over the last five years has been adversely affected by a Government policy which has reduced Wyre's revenue
support grant and directs our funding to other areas that the Government considers more
deserving.
This policy has reduced Wyre's funding this year by £540,000 and in total over the five years has cost the residents of Wyre £2.9m.
Coun Grunshaw has defended this policy in the past but I would urge him now to put the interests of the council tax payers of Wyre first and to stop being just another Labour apologist for a failing Government.
Coun Peter Gibson
Wyre Council



Bus safety
WHO owns Cleveleys bus station?
I am a bus driver for a local company.
Tuesdays are a nightmare getting onto the station to drop off passengers because of all the coaches. I had to drop my passengers off in the middle of the road.
When I asked a warden he said it was not his problem.
This needs to be sorted
before someone is hurt.
PM Lahiff
Carcroft Avenue, Blackpool



Good people are out there
In these days of doom and gloom, I am sure your readers will be delighted to know that there are still decent, honest and kind people about.
Today I shopped at Aldi in Fleetwood, they didn't have some items I wanted, so I drove to Asda.
Only when I looked in the car did I realise I must have left my handbag in the trolley at Aldi.
Readers will know how sick and panicky I felt as I drove back to Aldi thinking I had lost cheque books, credit cards, cash, house keys and car keys.
Imagine my delight and
disbelief to find some kind person had handed it in.
With no name or telephone number I can't thank this person but I must at least try to say how grateful I am.
Mrs B A Daniel
Address supplied



No way to take water firm back
I read the letters from Derek Bunting, Tom MacFarlane and Coun Mark Hamer (The Gazette, November 5).
Both ignore the fact that Labour could not re-nationalise water, not least because when water, gas, electricity and the bus and train system were privatised the Tories made it clear they were doing it in such a way that it would be extremely difficult to reverse.
All were also sold for far less than their worth and the
proceeds lost to financing the cost of high unemployment.
We must also consider the
inevitable outrage from the press who would consider such a move a drift back to socialism and the outrage from the
shareholders in the utility
companies.
As for Derek Bunting's claim Labour are responsible for the credit crunch, I would like to
suggest he should perhaps
consider dubious commercial transactions in America
compounded by greedy bankers may have contributed.
In response to assertion the
Tories have been out of office for eleven years.
Yes, they have, but Tony Blair was the best closet Tory Prime Minister ever elected.
Stephen Anderson
Address supplied



Shoppers are still spending
We hear every day how Britain is entering a recession.
Given the number of shoppers I saw at the weekend, clearly
nobody has told the public.
Name and Address Supplied