Well, after an edition when we went online it’s good to be back in print with a wide range of articles and a special feature
on our village shops. In this issue there is a questionnaire on the back page asking your opinion about the future of
Barrow Voice. Do you want your magazine online or in print? Your views matter!
We are very keen to know so don’t
hesitate to fill it in then drop it off at
Taylor’s Florist. It’s anonymous. But the
big news is that Ginnie Willcocks, one
of the longest serving members of the
writing team has decided to put the
top on her pen. She’s been contributing
articles for an impressive 34 years!
There isn’t space to do justice to Ginnie’s
importance in this editorial but I hope
the party, present and flowers said it all.
And sadly too we are saying goodbye to
Maggie J, who has been our Country Life
writer for the last six years. Thanks for
all the lovely articles Maggie. And finally
there’s me. I’m handing over the editor’s
reins to Karisa Krcmar but not leaving the
editorial team as I enjoy writing articles
too much. Karisa will be great as she
knows Barrow well, is full of energy and
ideas and her IT skills are up to date!
Good luck Karisa.
Gaynor Barton, Editor
Front cover: Manager of Barrow Upon Soar
Co-op: Chris Pacey
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor
Like so many Barrow residents we have been
doing a lot more walking in and around the
village during the Covid-19 Lockdown. Most
times we have tried to avoid residential areas
and our closest access to open countryside
is along Melton Road and Fishpool Way and
into the Millennium Park. We are so lucky
to have this very attractive area to walk in.
Many other people seem to have found this
too. Our visits to the Millennium Park before
Lockdown were infrequent and we never saw
many people there. In the last few months
it has been well visited, though never by so
many people that keeping a safe distance
from each other was not possible.
So we would like to express our thanks to
those people in Barrow who conceived this
idea and brought it to such a successful
conclusion. There is quite a lot of information
about the Millennium Park on the Barrow
Village website and on page 68 of the book
“Barrow in the 20th Century” (a booklet
produced to mark the dawn of the new
millennium) there is a list of the members of
the Millennium Planning Group.
We are relative newcomers to Barrow and
there are many more people who have moved
to the village since us. We wonder if some of
those who did the work to give us this lovely
open space would like to put together an
article for Barrow Voice to let us all know just
what it was like and what they did to make it
available to us. Perhaps an information board
near to one or two of the entrances to the
park would be a helpful reminder too.
Yours sincerely,
Graham and Sue Hobbs (see page 18 for story)