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Malcolm Temple (GWSR Chairman)
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The GWSR "Bridges to Broadway" Share press launch took place on site today. In order to show the assembled press contingent our volunteers in action we had a working day and 18 Volunteers came along to carry out their normal duties. Malcolm Temple, Chris Bristow, Alan Bielby and Maxine Barton Hawkins were attending on behalf of the GWSR. We were somewhat underwhelmed by the few press that turned up! Nevertheless I am assured that the message will percolate out onto the streets and I hope the initiative to raise £500,000 towards the cost of repairs to the bridges between Laverton and Broadway will get off to a flying start. I believe it will - never has there been a greater opportunity for supporters of the Railway to get behind the GWR and help bring the Broadway dream to a reality.
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| The first Broadway Supporter Share Purchase! |
The share offer is an attractive one. The shares purchased will qualify under the HMRC Enterprise Investment Scheme and will be subject to 30% income tax relief for tax payers. In addition a tiered concession scheme applies and starts with 3 free round trips per annum for those purchasing between 100-500 shares. Incidentally 100 Offer Shares are the minimum purchase.
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| Cheer up Roger.... |
On the work front the brick laying on Platform 2B continued. Although it threatened to rain a couple of times, 500 bricks were laid by the end of the day, which was a good number considering the distractions. As well as brick laying there was brick cleaning taking place and freshly cleaned reds were moved in and stacked behind the rising wall.
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The infill behind platform 2 has reached the height for placing the the rear edging slabs. This is always a 3 Weetabix job. The particular slabs in question were a hand me down arranged by Peter Quick, and very useful they will be.
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| Jo breathes in for a a rare pose.......Macho... |
In addition several trips were made with the dumper to collect additional bricks for cleaning from the Mythe pile. This also included the gathering of some bridge coping stones, either to be used elsewhere on the railway or to sell on.
On the right Jo poses by the dumper full of coping stones, with a backdrop of the new running in board sign which looks great. Jo was instrumental in arranging for the posts to be manufactured. He can rightly feel well chuffed with the end result.
Thanks to everyone who came today. To the many Blog supporters make sure you get your share prospectus from Maxine at Toddington or collect one from Broadway. It really is a great document and the offer therein, second to none.
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| Yes the steps are tied down..... |
A few other pictures from the day - look out in the press for extended coverage of the day.
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| Yes that's bright.... |
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| The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.. just kidding..... |
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| I blinked and missed the press....... |
4 comments:
Covered by the BBC here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24329770
Good luck!
This document is downloadable at
http://gwsr.com/BridgestoBroadway.pdf
on the GWSR website. I thought it could be possibly given more prominence as not many would write in for it, I feel.
Hope that helps, Howard
I forgot that I am preparing my application for a couple of hundred right now. All the best, Howard
Done my own bit for the cause, seeing as I don't have £100 knocking around spare (I'm 14!) been going round some of the internet forums, got a few people who had not heard about it and now looking into buying some shares :D
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