Don’t miss what’s going on in and around Burton. It is possible to link an event in the website calendar to your own personal calendar. To do so, select the event, right-click on ‘Add to Calendar’ button to display an option menu including Outlook and Apple. Make the appropriate selection and Read more…
Clay by Melissa Harrison A boy tiptoes from a high-rise block in the half-light of dawn to see the neat prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old and skipping school to spend his time exploring the city’s waste ground and forgotten wild Read more…
Life after Life – Kate Atkinson Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Read more…
I’ve just finished an OU English module (E301, The Art of English) which references a number of books I determined to read once the module was over. Listing them here in case you are in need of suggestions…and please feel free to make suggestions yourself. Alex Garland (2004) The Coma Read more…
Burton Community Association General Meeting Monday 12 May 7:30pm at the Old House at Home At the meeting the Chair of the BCA, Amanda Read, presented the Chair’s Report for Period March-May 2014. The report summarises BCA activities since its inception at the launch event in March 2014. The full report Read more…
The book selected for June is Spare Brides by Adele Parks New Year’s Eve, 1920. The Great War is over and it’s a new decade of glamorous promise. But a generation of men and women who survived the extreme trauma and tragedy will never be the same. With countless men Read more…
This year BCA is backing the village fete and stands to gain £300 or more from this one event. This income is essential if we are to realise much of the Beautiful Burton project, which includes a WW1 memorial bench on the Triangle, and picket fences for the village entry Read more…
This month we will be reading ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Tracy Chevalier. Girl With a Pearl Earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in Read more…
The Burton Book Club meets on the third Monday of every month, at 19:30 in the Old House @ Home. Books are picked at random out of a hat from members’ nominations. Each month the selected book will be posted on this website. We have somewhere in the region of 8-12 members. If Read more…