Bridgerule Carnival Week 2010

The waiting will soon be over!

Bridgerule Carnival Week starts on Sunday 25th July with the Crowning of the Carnival Queen and builds up to a spectacular climax with the Carnival on Saturday 31st July

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Bridgerule Village Store Reopening Ceremony

After much hard work Tony and Dawn reopened the New and Improved Bridgerule Store and Post Office on Saturday 24th July

Good food, a barbeque and a spectacular performance of fire eating and juggling by Britains' got talents' Luke Clements made the reopening ceremony a great success

The event was funded by Devon County Council as part of their commitment to help Rural shops thrive

It was also supported by The Rural Shops alliance and the Community Council of Devon

Now we need to do our bit so get down there and spend loads of money to show them it was all worthwhile!

You just have to try the new Luxury Cornish Ice Cream

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The July Bridgerule Buzz
and Bridgerule Parish Plan

The July Buzz has been delivered to everyone in the village
with a copy of the Bridgerule Parish Plan

The full Parish Plan document with the questionnaire results and the up to date action plans
can also be viewed here by clicking the links below

Click here to view and print the July 2010 Bridgerule Buzz

Click here to view the full Bridgerule Parish Plan

Click here to view the up to date action plans

Click here to view the full questionnaire results

To join in please click here to email us

Bridgerule Open Gardens 2010

Once again keen gardeners opened their gardens on Sunday 6th June to raise money for the Devon and Cornwall Air Ambulances

The event was a spectacular success with £1915 being raised

Click here for full details of the event

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Bridgerule Treasure Hunt

The Annual Bridgerule Treasure Hunt took place on 22nd May

Results were:

Car Treasure Hunt
1st The Desparate Rovers
2nd The Sussex Expats 1
3rd The Neighbours

Walking Treasure Hunt
1st Trayfords Lot
2nd Dannys Disaster
3rd Reece

This very worthwhile event which ended with a barbeque at the Bridge Inn raised £234 for the Devon Air Ambulance

The Devon Air Ambulance in action
in Bridgerule

Saturday 1st May - a lady was taken to hospital by Devon Air Ambulance

A lot if local events are arranged to support this very worthwhile cause and here you can see it in action in Bridgerule

The Devon Air Ambulance landed on the football pitch, stopping play for about 1/2 hour

Thanks to Rose Hitchens who sent in these photos in and said "What I thought was REALLY nice - was that even though the lads had had their game stopped ... when the helicopter finally took off - everyone clapped. I think we all feel very proud of the work Devon/Cornwall Air Ambulance do - even the youngsters appreciate this amazing service"

I think we all agree!

Click here for the Devon Air Ambulance website

Click here for the Cornwall Air Ambulance website

Launceston Male Voice Choir visits Bridgerule

It was nice to see the hall so full for this event

The superb performance on Sunday 18th April raised £595 for Chapel funds

Everyone enjoyed a pasty supper after the event

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Another one bites the dust

This is the last you'll see of the public telephone box at Merrifield cross

It was removed on Thursday 8th May

It would be a shame to see the same happen to the one in the village

One of the action plans for the Bridgerule Tomorrow project could be to keep the old type red phonebox - and also to keep it connected

Click here to see what we can do

A cold start to 2010

Snow and ice made walking and driving difficult for much of January and February

Thankfully it has warmed up now

The bad weather has taken it's toll on the roads with new potholes appearing

Click on the photo to see a few winter photos from around the village

X Factor 19?? - spot the local publican

Jamming night every Monday. Don't worry - he doesn't join in now!

Relax with a drink and listen to the local musicians

Skittles, General knowledge quizzes, Darts, Euchre, Pool, pub food and meetings

Support your local

Click here for more on what's happening at the Bridge Inn

Accident on the Red Post to Launceston road

Fortunately no one was hurt when a truck carrying 20 tonnes of gravel swerved off the road shortly before Christmas

The accident happened between the old railway bridge and Bevills Hill and closed the road for a whole day

A digger unloaded part of the load of gravel and cleared the mud from under the truck so it could be winched out

The Halloween Disco in the hall brings in the crowds

A superbly decorated hall and some horribly frightening individuals greeted the crowds that attended the halloween disco

And that was just the people taking the money on the door

You then had to go through the black tunnel to see the best pumpkin and the best costume competition.

There was a discount on the entrance fee for dressing up so, as you would expect in Bridgerule, nearly everyone dressed up!

Click on the grave stone to see the halloween photos - if you dare!

School trip to Bude

Do you recognise any of these children waiting at the station for the train to Bude?

Exact year unknown - about 1964?

Country and Western night nets big bucks for the Air Ambulance

An extremely successful Country and Western evening was held at the Parish Hall on Saturday 24 October

It was a complete sell-out with standing room only by the time the main attraction, “The Cornish Hillbillies” made it on to the stage

An extremely skilful and colourful display of line dancing was put on by a number of local people dressed appropriately in country and western outfits

Just as impressive was the amount raised, £631.82 for Devon Air Ambulance. Well done to everyone who worked so hard to put it on!

Parish Council School Visit

Bridgerule school kindly invited the parish council to visit the school on Tuesday 29th September

Unfortunately only 2 councillors could make it, the Chairman, Ken James and Ken Chilton

The children took great pride in showing off their school to the 2 kens

Please click here for full details

Football in Bridgerule

Bridgerule has 2 football teams - they welcome any new supporters with a display of football worthy of the premiership - unfortunately it doesn't always last until the end of the match but they are still well worth checking out!

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Click here to visit the Bridgerule Football Club Facebook Site

The new Bridgerule Parish Hall opens

No - it's okay - you haven't missed anything

This happened quite a while ago but they forgot to put it on the internet

In Times Gone By

Bridgerule Station as it used to be

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