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Looking for a place to garden ?

Dave — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:57:03 +0000

Fancy some veg gardening with a group of other people – or need a small allotment of your own ?
We have a Community Garden in co-operation with Monimail Tower Project. And we have space for other individuals or families that want to be involved. Take an allotment or garden together.
Come + have a look to see if you are interested at our Open Day on Sunday 20th May from 11am to 3pm at Monimail Tower. See nhtt.org.uk for details

Energy Coop for local renewables?

Dave — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:55:49 +0000

The next meeting of the NHTT’s Energy Group will begin a public discussion about locally-owned renewable energy in our area. NHTT recognises that it is better to begin the discussion now, rather than have developments happen on our doorstep, in which the community has no part.
Therefore we are exploring the idea of an Energy Co-operative that is owned by members of the community.
The meeting will host Energy 4 ALL man Paul Phare. Paul will present the work of Energy 4 All in promoting and enabling community-based energy cooperative projects and we will discuss how their approach might work in our area. Monday 21st May 2012 at 7.45pm. Letham Village Hall. All welcome. See nhtt.org.uk for details

Free Compost for Gardening

Dave — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:12:04 +0000

Free compost is now available to householders in the area. NHTT has arranged for compost (soil conditioner) to be provided free of charge by Fife Council. Monimail Tower Project have kindly agreed to host the stockpile at the edge of their car park. See here for details.

Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award 2011

Dave — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 17:57:53 +0000

In this years Scotsman/Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards, our very own Tom Morton has made the shortlist of 4 contending for the prestigious Environmental Award.
Tom has built one of Scotland’s leading environmental design practices, Cupar based, Arc.
Tom’s new buildings progress the agenda for affordable and healthy Eco-homes. His work on NHTT’s CaRB project, is used as a best practice model by the Energy Saving Trust. His major report on using plants to protect buildings is to be published by Historic Scotland this month.

Tom doesn’t know that I’ve started this campaign so please do go to www.glenfiddich.com/spirit and vote for him. Once you vote, you’ll automatically be entered into a prize draw for a luxury weekend away.

King George V Park, Letham

Dave — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:24:04 +0000

parkopening

On Wednesday 5th October 2011, King George V park was finally re-opened after a 3 1/2 year project to breathe some new life into a tired old park. Master of Cermonies was David Hamilton, Chair of the Community Council but the actual cutting of the ribbon was done by Cllr Andrew Arbuckle. The stars of the afternoon were however the dozens of children from the Secret Garden Playgroup and Letham Primary who joined in the fun cheering on the many people who had made the project happen.

The park now has a great range of play equipment and adult exercise machines but the highligt has to be the clay shelter that replaces the rotting wooden shelter.

This was a superb example of multi-agency and community funding coming together to make Letham a better place. Attached is the “Fairy Tale of Letham Park” which includes all the people involved in the project.

Additionally Peter Cuthbert from Angle Park deserves a special mention for his help and supply of the shelter building materials.

On Yer bike and have a coffee!

Dave — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:09:31 +0000

Dr Bike (Daves bike Shed Aberdour) will be at the Letham Coffee Morning in the Village Hall on

Saturday 8th October 1000-1200

doing FREE checks on all Letham bikes to:

check tyres and inflate if necessary;
check steering and seating;
put bike onto the workstand;
check the operation of brakes and gears and make minor adjustments.

This will get your bike safe and on the road again and ready for use on the new cycle routes currently being built around the NHTT area. For work requiring parts special Letham prices apply…

Click here to learn more and see the flyer

Comment of History of Letham DVD

Dave — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:29:19 +0000

A few comments on The History of Letham DVD…

Hi Dave

DVD arrived yesterday, watched it today, found it facinating. Seeing Annie Webster brought back memories, I was one of her paper boys, used to pick up the papers from the 8am bus along with her father at the Well Tree.

Thanks for all your help.

John Garden

For information on how to get a DVD click here

Bin collection- Update

Dave — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:37:53 +0000

The following response has (finally) come from Fife Council..

If your bin has not been collected since before Christmas: Your can use your brown bin to store household waste and can present these bins on the next scheduled brown bin collection day and they will be emptied. Therefore the brown bin waste will not be recycled from this uplift as it will be going to landfill. This is only for households where grey bins have not been emptied since before Christmas.

However the crews are still trying to catch up with missed bins where access allows so please leave your bins out at the kerbside.

The Old Letham Talk- Online

Dave — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:07:30 +0000

On Friday 9th October 2009, Donald Dallas gave a talk on the history of Letham. A DVD was made of the talk but a low resolution copy is posted on the history page in 8 parts. Details on how to get the full DVD will be Posted soon.

Part1 is posted below:

Historical photographs

Dave — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:15:38 +0000

They’re Back!

As I complete the migration of content from the old Letham site to the new one one of the most missed and popular features- the historical photographs- has now been reloaded and an improved gallery facility put in place.

Please do add comments re the photos and let me know if my dates are wrong. Accesscan be got through the link on the Right had sidebar but here’s a wee taster of whats on line.
Right-click your mouse if you want to open up any of the photos in a separate window (from where you can save it/adjust/zoom in etc)

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..

To compliment this material I will soon be adding a video of Donald Dallas’s excellent old Letham talk. (just ironing out the technical bits just now)