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Facilities, local groups, parish council and business information for the village of Timsbury, near Bath

A message from First Bus

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Following recent guidance from the Government I want to update you on what we’re doing at First to keep you travelling safe. From the 31st May we are running far more buses to provide more seats for keyworkers and essential journeys. Full details and timetables are available on our website – please bear with us, it might take a few days to update all of the next bus and journey planner information.

Let’s look after each other
Even though we’re running more buses, we’ve got a reduced capacity on each bus so please allow plenty of time for your journey and travel at quieter times, so everyone can get where they need to go. If you can:

  • Pay in advance on the app or use contactless
  • Keep your distance and follow signage on board
  • Wear a face covering
  • Leaving windows open to aid ventilation

We have produced a short video to show some of the changes we have made to comply with the Governments new guidelines.

Keeping you informed and updated
Our telephone lines remain open if you do need to talk to us. Our operating hours are 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Outside of these hours you can contact us via the contact form on our website. Our team will be monitoring Twitter at the weekends between 9am and 5pm and on weekdays between 7am and 7pm.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

Regards
Giles Fearnley
Managing Director, First Bus

Bloomfield Road closure from June 8th

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The length of Timsbury Road / Bloomfield Road, from a point 60m south of Hillside Farm to the junction with North Road, will be closed for carriageway reconstruction and resurfacing works from Monday,  June 8th.

See the map here for the extent of the works.

The road will only be restricted as and when traffic signs are in position (expected to be between 7.00am and 7.00pm) and the work may not last for the whole of the period but only for so long as is necessary to execute the works. This is anticipated to be for two weeks.

Online Wellbeing courses

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The Wellbeing College is jointly funded by the council and CCG (Clinical Commissioning Group) and committed to improving the wellbeing, health and happiness of everyone living in the district.  Many free courses are on offer to help residents live as well as possible and manage their own physical and mental health

The College is currently offering free, online, interactive courses to help get you through this difficult time.  Find out more.

First Bus announces new rules for bus travel

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  • Social distancing measures will be introduced on First Bus buses from Monday, May 21st to ensure the safety of staff and customers and in line with Government guidelines
  • Reduced capacity will effectively mean buses will only be able to carry 1 in 4 passengers compared to the usual capacity on each bus
  • First Bus is asking those essential travellers who must use buses to check their journey details in advance, avoid busier periods and allow extra time for their journey as they may need to wait if their bus is full when it arrives.
  • More details here.

VE Day Celebrations Statement by Royal British Legion

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“On behalf of Timsbury Royal British Legion I would like to thank all those in Timsbury who attended the 2mins Silence in the morning at the Memorial.

Also it was great to see so many of you out having tea parties, clapping and cheering as we paraded around the village in the afternoon, in particular The Cheshire Home well done to the staff for getting everyone outside in their wheelchairs, fantastic! Thankyou to those who supplied us with food and drink on route aswell, we needed it.

I would also like to thank William Berttram for driving around his WWII American Jeep, (the jeep is a Normandy  veteran) which at one point we did’nt think it was going to make it, as we had to push start it, amazing! With the jeeps own air raid siren and music box in the back provided by Dan my next door neighbour. Thankyou to Danny who played a few old wartime songs on his trumpet and Gordon Whitton who joined us driving his British Army landrover as we went around  Bloomfield, brilliant! Also Barry Sewell the RBL Branch Chairman in full Navy uniform, who persevered and made it all the way round walking with me, hope you have recovered Barry.

Again I would like to thank everyone for making this a very special and memorable day in our Village History.”

VE Day 2020 photo 3

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VE Day 2020 photo 1

 

 

Timsbury Royal British Legion VE Day Celebrations Friday 8th May

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All celebrations that were planned throughout the country for this day sadly had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus. However, the Royal British Legion Somerset have asked all Branches to parade their Standard in their communities on the 8th May at 1100hrs to observe the two minutes silence. To join in with this Chris Fiddes the Standard Bearer along with Barry Sewell the Timsbury RBL Branch Chairman will be on parade at the Memorial at 1100hrs in Newmans Lane.

Anyone who wishes to come along is welcome, but must observe the 2m social distancing rules.

Also on the day it would be great to see everyone in Timsbury holding their own celebration with their family, in your house or garden. I’m sure you can think of lots of idea’s for this, Flying the Union Jack, red, white & blue bunting, fancy dress party, food, dancing, singing or just music all with a military theme!  Maybe we could have a competition to see who has the best decorated front window or garden in Timsbury?

Myself and Barry Sewell in our old uniforms and William Bertram in his WWII jeep will parade around the village starting at 1600hours from Timsbury Royal British Legion. We will be waving and cheering! and  hoping to see everyone celebrating this very special and important event in our history.

768 Bus Changes from 3rdMay

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Starting 3 May 2020, some journeys on bus service 768 will run via Writhlington to restore a limited daytime service to
the Manor Park and Frome Road areas on Mondays to Fridays (not Public Holidays).

There will be other minor changes to the timetable.

The full timetable can be downloaded here.

 

Garden waste collections resume

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B&NES Council is restarting fortnightly garden waste collections on Monday, April 27th after the service was temporarily paused due to the Covid-19 outbreak. 

Residents will receive extra green waste collections before they are asked to renew, to make up for missed collections.  Existing garden waste stickers will now be valid until July 18th 2020 to make up for the missed collections.

Residents are asked not to overload their garden waste bin to ensure the recycling team can run the service safely and efficiently. 

More information and how to find your garden collection day can be found at here https://beta.bathnes.gov.uk/garden-waste 

Comments on Coronavirus by Timsbury Parish Council

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9th April 2020

The Parish Council realise it is so hard for many residents but so pleased and thankful to everyone in Timsbury for showing the determination, compassion and organising skills to support each other in these challenging, unique, and for many frightening, times.

It is great to hear the ‘clapping’ for key workers across the Parish on Thursdays at 8pm. That includes our thanks to the teaching and other staff at St Mary’s School, looking after our key workers children, and the local staff of our Pharmacy and our Doctors. We are so lucky to have their hard work and commitment to support our local community.

Timsbury churches were amazingly quick in setting up a network of volunteers to get shopping for isolating residents, with a dedicated team for medication delivery, who have been specially trained by the Pharmacy.

The Teddy Bear and Rainbow spotting trails are a lovely diversion on our daily exercise time. Thanks to everyone who has taken and intend to take part.  As these walks are becoming part of life the ‘Timsbury Walks’ books have had a new rush of interest bringing variety to their lives – you can buy them in Health & More in the High Street.

An update of what is happening and available locally is shown on the Coronavirus village webpage here: timsbury.org.uk/coronavirus.

We are worried that some vulnerable residents may miss out on the various efforts of the Government, B&NES Council Compassionate Community scheme and local support. We will do what we can, with the help of others to fill any gaps as we find them. Please make us aware of any situation that you think we need to know about and we will help if we can.

The Parish Council will consider providing financial or support to groups, businesses or individuals to do things that support others in the parish during, and as a result of, the coronavirus outbreak, if it falls within its reserves, the law allows it, and where other resources are not available e.g. from the various Government schemes.

We are all having to cope and adapt, and we will need ideas for recovery when we come out of the lockdown. We all need to think about making a special effort to support our local businesses and groups when they open again to keep them going, especially those who have tried to carry on supporting us – the local butchers, bakers and veg growers etc. who have carried on providing and also set up home deliveries.

Meanwhile, the Parish Council will make urgent or necessary decisions remotely, as we are affected by isolation rules the same as everyone else. We are continuing to pay our staff and the contractors who regularly provide our services to support them and to ensure continuity of services in the long term. The legally required Annual Parish Meeting in April, the Parish Council’s own annual meeting in May and our financial audit processes are postponed by Government.

If you have any ideas or concerns please contact the Parish Council via the Clerk here.

From the Chairman on behalf of the whole Parish Council.