Granger Teenagers Are Awesome Out litter picking this afternoon/evening I got talking to a group of teenaged girls. One said how it used to be where children had their own groups and kids/teens didn’t mix but now everyone mixes. We also discussed how important our younger estate children feel when they help litter picking and […]
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Granger Litter Ninjas and Teenagers
Children Clean Estate Over Easter
Children clean estate over Easter It’s been a busy Easter half term with the children helping to clean up the Grange Estate. I hadn’t realised just quite how much myself and the children had done until I put together this post. Thank you so much to all the children who have spent hours litter picking, […]
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Grange Estate Videos
I had a visit from my techie son who has given me a crash course in video making so I thought I’d have a go at transforming pictures of events that have taken place on The Grange Estate over the past 2 years into short videos. I thought I’d experiment with a time lapse video […]
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Community Rallies To Fund Hoffman
Daventry community rallies to help fund dog’s care Rebekah and Hoffman are part of the Grange community. They go everywhere together and are inseparable. Rebekah is also one of our 40 strong resident litter pickers on the Grange Estate, often out and about when Hoffman is well enough helping to keep our estate litter free. […]
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New opening hours for Daventry HWRC (Tip)
In February Northamptonshire County Council (NCC) decided in order to save money across the County they will be introducing new opening hours across the Counties 10 HWRC this includes Daventry’s tip on Browns Road. Daventry HWRC (Household Waste Recycling Centre) opening days and times Since the new opening times have been introduced there has been […]
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Clean Up at Kentle Wood
It is surprising how many residents I have spoken with do not know about Kentle Wood which is situated on the edge of Daventry it is a small woodland reserve at the back of the Ford site on the Royal Oak industrial estate. The wood was created in 2000 as part of the Woodland Trust’s ‘Woods […]
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Recycling boxes Versus Pod Bins
Recycling boxes versus pod bins. I am sick to death of our recycling boxes! Yes it is great to recycle things and have it collected from our kerbside every week but on windy days it drives me to distraction when I come across recycling waste all strewn across the estate. We used to have […]
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Our new website – Daventry Express
“New website for Grange estate: A plucky resident of the Grange Estate has launched a new hyperlocal community website for residents. Yourgrange.co.uk was launched on Thursday, March 12 by Jaquie Ward with the help of her son Andrew, who runs a web development business in Birmingham. Jacquie said she was keen to see the new […]
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I Want To See In The Dark
I walked down to The Grange Convenience Store tonight OMG I walk there every day but even I had trouble on the path where they all join near the 2 very large Ash trees and where the path dips. All 3 street lights here were off, further on towards The Stour 2 consecutive lights were […]
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