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Riots in Kidderminster!
Viva Las Vegas
Your Kiddy' your blog
A shooting on Google StreetView
How many offices in the single site?
Think about the children _ our children
Blakebrook Drinking Fountain
The Castle Three Patent Runabout, 1921
Bonanza!
GRATIAS HODIE AGIMUS
How open?
Has anybody seen Lowry?
Red, white and blue roses
lets get the Father back in on the game

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	30 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
I've had a quick flick though the Strategy, and noted a couple of amusing spelling mistakes along the way "Bard members" and "The Traingle". They make some good points, but all the artists' impressions seem to me to be based along the possibility of demolishing the entire town centre and rebuilding it. Not that I've got anything against that, I just don't think it's feasible. On an entirely smug note, I look at some...

See Your Kiddy' your blog

	30 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
"there are 3 employees in the team and 2½ will be transferred" I'd hate to be that third person - ouch. Interesting that you mention the "Wyre Forest Car Parking Review" with the notice in this week's Shuttle; I've gone into more depth elsewhere about an oddity listed there. The joke with the stealth Unitary council is that I can see us transferring...

See How many offices in the single site?

	30 Jul 2010
Honest Ricardo Lampshade
Being the hotbed of the gaming industry that is very relevant to Wyre Forest... NOT! I would be interesting to see a list of his directorships.

See Viva Las Vegas

	29 Jul 2010 Wyre Forest Liberals
Fran Oborski
Sorry Tav, If you'd asked I'd have given you a copy... (amendments)

See How many offices in the single site?

	29 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
Oops my mistake mixing dative and accusative "We give thanks for today" would be Gratiis Hodie Agimus, 'Gratias' would indeed be "We give thanks today".

See GRATIAS HODIE AGIMUS

	29 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
Well you know me, blithely stating that 'it's the law' or whatnot without specifying which is like a flapping thing to a horned animal

See Has anybody seen Lowry?

	29 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
I read it as, "We give thanks for today", 'gratias' is the plural accusative of 'gratia', with it being applied to 'hodie' 'Agimus' is the first person plural of 'ago'. I'm surprised a translation didn't know that, it's common enough.

See GRATIAS HODIE AGIMUS

	29 Jul 2010 Wyre Forest Liberals
Fran Oborski
You are wrong on one point Tav, ALL the BSF projects in Worcestershire were in Wyre Forest. I don't know how you thought two weren't. And I guess Ricardo is right too. Of course Mark wasn't consulted, he's a back bench MP aka "cannon fodder"! Wyre Forest Schemes were lost because we were still months away from a final bidder and about 1 year away from financial...

See Open email to Mark Garnier MP

	28 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
...and now another letter I note.

See Has anybody seen Lowry?

	28 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
Heh and I was just trying to decipher Gratias Hodie Agimus - Give thanks Today We

See GRATIAS HODIE AGIMUS

	28 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
Oh that site's definitely getting bookmarked, still can't spot Hell-Lane though.

See Blakebrook Drinking Fountain

	27 Jul 2010 Wyre Forest Liberals
Fran Oborski
Having declared for Parliament in the English Civil War, Kidderminster had an active Republican Society which used to have Annual Picnics during Victorian Times.

See Riots in Kidderminster!

	27 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
As to location a map of the Mason Road location appears as part of a Kidderminster Civic Society document (page 3) dated 1885 and doesn't seem to show a structure. Then again it is a bit close to the date so it depends on when the survey was done compared to when the map was published. However if one of those photos happened to show the fish pond that would be a firm indicator. Shame there isn't an online historical map section on the Hub as there is for Stourport.

See Blakebrook Drinking Fountain

	26 Jul 2010 Harriers-Online
Harriers9
Keith (off Flickr) I think you have looked in the wrong place. The fountain was situated on Blakebrook Green at the bottom of Bewdley Hill near to the hospital. On the map (below) I believe it was where Blakebrook meets Bewdley Hill. Move a couple of yards forward into the road as it is now and that's more or less where it could have been.

Location of Blakebrook Drinking Fountain?

See Blakebrook Drinking Fountain

	26 Jul 2010 The Mad Ranter
FlipC
So as you said either it's stuck at the back of some council building, it's being stored privately for which the council may be paying costs for, or it's been sold or otherwise disposed of. I'm betting it was stuck in storage for a while until forgotten about several councils down the line and then got rid of. I suppose the same unanswered question goes for the concrete frieze that was above the entrance to the Swan Centre though that is a private matter.

See Blakebrook Drinking Fountain

	26 Jul 2010
Keith Slater
Wow Tav that's some drinking fountain! Great old photos. ...superb Victorian structure, thanks for the info. Being interested in the way places used to look and what they are like now, I've just had a look on Google Earth at this junction. I can't understand why they removed this fountain, there's the police station on the one corner, yards away from the road and nothing on the other corners. It seems to have been pointless to remove a fantastic structure and ornate fencing???> ...ain't that typical of powers that be, quieten the objectors by saying they will do something at a later date... ...then, do sod all.

See Blakebrook Drinking Fountain

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"Who’d have thought it? Kidderminster, boring small town Kidderminster a hotbed of radicalism? Where have they all gone?"
_Liz
"You really do have some crap posted on here Tav!"
_{Fran Oborski}
"Wyre Forest Agenda, the independently minded political tilting yard of Mr. Tavis Pitt"
_{Neville Farmer}
"It's nice to see that the real Wyre Forest hadn't sat down completely "
_{John Campion}
"Whoever Tav is, he doesn't sound a Tory supporter does he? _ more like a Health Concern defender."
_Mo'nonymous
"Everybody knows Kidderminster is the biggest shit hole in the world."
_{Richard Richard}
"I'll certainly keep my eye on the Agenda in future."
_{Graeme Harvey}
"...the Wyre Forest Agenda, a superior blog..."
_Mo'nonymous
"Kidderminster... ...it swarmed with ignorance, profligacy, Sabbath-breaking, vice"
_{John Schroeder}
"The layout of your web site is rubbish - sort it out!!"
_{Joe Rowe}
"Your blog is excellent and has been really informative for me."
_{Richard Berry}
"Tavis. Great to have the blog back as good as ever."
_{F. Davenport}
"[The Wyre Forest Agenda], now that is impressive"
_circa83
"What on earth is the Wyre Forest Agenda though?"
_{Tom Watson}
"...you probably have millions of bloggers world wide on your fantastic site..."
_{Nigel Addison}
"Tav I have just found your blog and I have to say I'm impressed"
_{rich_edwards79}
"I've just come across your blog and wow 'Wyre Forest'"
_Mandy
"I was accused, through a comment in an earlier blog, of being a UKIP supporter. Well Mr. Pitt, I'm not."
_{The Leak}
"Wyre Forest Council in the West Midlands (sounds like someplace right out of Middle Earth)"
_{brianblackberry}
"The thing is - oh dear, Tavis - you read the Guardian?"
_Cheryl
"Tavis Pitt reminds me of a group of German local authority members..."
_{Clive Soley}
"I would have thought any councillor worth his or her salt would make themselves aware of local issues by reading... ...the fantastic Wyre Forest Agenda."
_Kidderguy
"Presumably it's your contention that the voters of Wyre Forest and Blaenau Gwent have been somehow unplugged from the Matrix, is it?"
_{Adam Gray}

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