Burton in Kendal Onion Show

Kings Arms, Burton in Kendal

Sunday 4th October 2015

Classes and promises to date are as follows:

Classes

1. 3 Dressed Onions
2. 3 Leeks
3. 3 Onion sets
4. 2 Cabbages
5. 3 gourd
6. 3 Beetroot
7. 3 Carrots
8. 3 Individual Salad Vegetables
9. 3 Individual Mixed Vegetables
10. 5 Individual Mixed Vegetables
11. Heaviest Onion
12. Heaviest Vegetable
13. 5 Dessert Apples
14. 5 Cooking Apples
15. Pot Plant
16. Vase of Flowers
17. Vase of Dahlias
18. 3 Chrysanthemums
19. Chocolate Cake
20. Novelty cake
21. Fruit Pie
22. Loaf of Bread
23. 4 Cup cakes
24. Tray Bake
25. 3 Poultry Eggs
26. Novice Class (any veg)
27. Jar of homemade jam with taster pot
28. Jar of chutney with taster pot

Children’s classes’. Up to yr 2 and yrs 3-6

29. Item made from recyclable materials
30. Fruit and Veg animal
31. Wildlife/animal picture
32. 3 Decorated biscuits

Entries taken from 10.00hrs and closed at noon for judging to commence afterwards. Auction of promises/entries to commence at 2pm, we look forward to another brilliant day.

There will be a ducking stool offering you a chance to dunk a local “Lady” plus bouncy castle and kids entertainment.

List of promises to date (donor)

Side of Home Cold Smoked Salmon. Neil Shaw.

Walking Stick. Roger Shaw.

Fly only session on the River Bela Ian Hunt

Dinner, B&B in the deluxe Lapwing suite @ Longlands. Fiona and Barry Robinson

Half Rib of Hereford Beef John Long.

Traditional English Game Meal for 4. Neil and Ruth Shaw.

Haunch of Venison Jeff Nicholls.

Days Driven Pheasant Shooting @ Heversham. Callum Graham

15kg Park House Box of Beef. Paul Capstick

Greek hamper. Jill and Akis.

Weekend at Seathwaite Cottage. Julian Rowley

Photo shoot inc 1 10 x 8 print. John Jackson.

10lb pack of traditional free range pork sausages. Shagram meats.

Afternoon Tea for 2 at Sharrow Bay. BPW Fire Safety.

Side of Lamb. Mark Blease.

Personalised slate place mats. Carl Jackson.

4hr bush craft/forest skills kids’ session in the woods. Graham Brandwood.

Overnight stay for 2 in the White Hart, Harrogate, inc brewery trip. Louise and Andy Barker.

Furness Fish and Game Hamper Clare Worrall

Pure Essence voucher. Sue Shields.

The best Cheese and Onion pie in’t world. Chris Kirkham.

MOT Pritchard’s Garage

Evening rise on Lupton Reservoir Ian Hunt

Days Salmon fishing inc lunch. Carl Jackson

Selection of homemade jam and marmalade. Mollie, Sheila and Rachel.

Onion show liqueur pack Onion show committee.

Homemade Christmas cake Rebecca Ludlum

½ dozen free range eggs a week for 3 months. Roy Healey.

2 gardeners for half a day. Julian and Moira Rowley

Fresh fish hamper. Nathan Lusted.

Burton helping quake victims in Nepal

DIARY DATE: Saturday 30th May, 9.30am-11.30am

Coffee Morning and Bring'n'Buy Sale in aid of the Nepal Quake Victims, Burton Memorial Hall.

All welcome!

There will be a home-made cakes stall (Yum!), Bring and Buy, coffee and cake, and live music! 

The event is in aid of DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) and the Mission Aviation Fellowship, to support their work in Nepal after the recent devastating earthquakes.

Superfast fibre broadband finally hits Burton!

Great excitement this week as we heard that Burton village can now get superfast fibre broadband. Holme, on the same exchange, has been able to get it for a few weeks now.

We've been checking and it seems that most of Burton village itself has the status message "accepting orders", and fibre certainly gets as far as the kennels on Station Lane.

Holme Mills is "fibre to cabinet but cabinet not yet taking orders so keep checking", Hilderstone is "accepting orders", but Burtlands/Station Inn and out to Moss House Farm are all returning "exploring solutions".

The houses at the very top of Vicarage Lane, Dalton, are also "exploring solutions". 

Dalton Hall Business Centre and Stable Yard areas are "accepting orders", as is Clawthorpe.

If you are not sure if your line is fibre-possible, do use the checker to see (BT lines only) or contact your telephone provider and ask them directly.   

WW1 Commemorative Exhibition at Burton Memorial Hall, LA6 1NA

WW1 Commemorative Exhibition at Burton Memorial Hall
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th October, 2014. 10am - 4pm both days.
Admission free.

Broadband speed mapping

The Broadband Cumbria project is trying to establish where the hotspots and, more importantly, where the notspots - those places which do not get decent broadband speeds - are, and want your help to map them. Here in Burton some of us get good broadband speeds whilst others struggle to reach 1Mbsp or 2Mbps speeds, so to help work out a broadband map of the parish if you are in the Burton exchange area we'd like to ask you to take a speed test and then report the results to us.

It's simple to do: all you need is to visit http://www.speedtest.net/wave/01a36521cdd24e04 and click the big button that says JOIN THIS SPEED WAVE and when it loads the test screen click the BEGIN TEST button on the left. The test will start and run a ping, a download and an upload test, and then show your results on the Speedwave page. (Note: due to the way that determining your location works it probably won't show Burton - ours shows London! but don't worry about that, it's more to do with where your ISP connects to the internet infrastructure  rather than where you connect to the internet!)

Once you've run the test please make a note of the ID number you've generated alongside your results and post a reply below along with a general indicator of where in the exchange you are - e.g. Main street Burton, Vicarage Lane Burton, Drovers Way, Dalton village, Clawthorpe, or if you're in Holme, Priest Hutton or Yealand  etc... then we'll start to build up a picture of speed variations across the exchange area.

The Speedwave will run for a while so as to give as many people as possible time to test their connections.

Please only add your results to the Burton exchange Speedwave if you are connecting from a phone line on the Burton Cumbria exchange - i.e. one which commences 01524 78xxxx or you'll skew our figures, thank you!