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Alton’s reputation as being a walker-friendly town could get official recognition, if a bid by the Town Council is successful. Obtaining Walkers are Welcome status, as a growing number of communities across Britain are doing, brings a number of benefits. It helps strengthen a town’s reputation as a place for visitors to come to...
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Pavilion Clock Anstey Park’s new Finnimore Pavilion took another step forward recently with the installation of it’s new clock tower. With two faces, one pointing towards the car park, the other to the playing fields, this handsome and colonial looking piece on the building is the latest addition to the new pavilion....
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Alton Past and Present Calendar 2012 A few of Alton Town Council’s 2012 calendars showing town shop-fronts from the past and also their modern frontages are still available. Produced in aid of the town’s Christmas Lights, the calendars show 12 of the most recognisable frontages around Alton using historical photographs and modern ones taken...
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Thanks to the generosity of a local landlord, the nativity scene which, for many years, was placed each December in thePublic Gardens playground and latterly at10 Market Street, is now on display at Unit 2 in Westbrook Walk. Chairman of the Town Council’s Recreation Committee, Councillor Matthew Bayliss, said ‘On behalf of the Town...
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An innovative promotion of a long distance footpath should give passengers waiting for buses in Alton’s busy High Street something other to read than bus timetables from now on. Five bus shelters in the thoroughfare have been brightened-up with maps and text depicting St Swithun’s Way, a 70 mile long distance footpath linking...
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As you walk through Anstey Park at the moment, you cannot help but notice the building work taking place on the new Finnimore Pavilion. Today, This is Alton was given exclusive access to the site to photograph the progress of the build. Alton has waited a long time for the new building to come...
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Cllr Saunders assists new Head Groundsman, Martin Sampson planting an oak tree at Anstey Park. Photo by Martin Saban-Smith Alton Town Mayor, Councillor Robert Saunders this morning assisted with the planting of the first collection of trees as Alton’s contribution to National Tree Week at Anstey Park. When asked about the project and what...
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Alton is marking National Tree Week by planting a record number of trees across its public open spaces this autumn. 11 trees are being planted in the Public Gardens, St Lawrence Churchyard and Anstey Park in the coming days, making it one of the biggest tree planting schemes by Alton Town Council for many...
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A calendar with a difference has again been launched to help fund Alton’s Christmas Lights. Alton Past & Present 2012 shows scenes from Alton of yesteryear (by kind permission of Hampshire County Council’s Museum Service), alongside an image taken from the same spot today and has been put together by Alton photographer and designer...
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