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April 18th 2001

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Brierley Remembered: Baipip's new book Brierley Remembered No.1. Is available to order by E-mailing Gary. and leaving your address. Sorry U K only please. The book includes Photographs, stories, memories and other interesting stories about Brierley and its people from 1901 - 2001 and will be a limited edition of 100. The book will be a mini series of possibly two and no more than three books that Baipip aims to write. Price £3.50. The book is A5 and 36 pages and very much similar to the one that was written last year for the 2000 exhibition. Please note that some of the contents are already available on this web site. The book will be on a first come first served basis.

Amco Gates: Parents of children on the Hodroyd Cottages (Pit Row) are concerned that despite previous dangers, a double gate, which lies at the end of the street, is fully open and the old pit site is once again accessible. Recently a youth from the Hillside estate was burned after cutting through live wires on the site.  

Rat City: Angry residents on Hillside Brierley are up in arms over the estate they have now dubbed Rat city. The problems have persisted for over 18 months, and it doesn't seem like the problem is going away despite constant efforts by the environmental health department of BMBC. The council workmen have been leaving rat poison in all areas of the estate, but one angry resident Mr David Parkin, is concerned about the wildlife in the area, which will be shortly coming out of hibernation. His next-door elderly neighbours Mr and Mrs Porter have hedgehogs as regular visitors to their garden and they too are worried that the animals will be poisoned. Other residents are concerned for the health of themselves their children and their pets. Hazel Davenport chairman of the Hillside Tara stated that she had received a number of complaints from the residents and that they had been passed on to the council through Gill Staniforth, but states that the council are fighting a losing battle when the residents won’t help themselves. The problem she says, seems to be centred round the Hillside Crescent area where there is spare land in between the houses which most of the resident’s back gardens lead onto. She claims that a number of residents are using this area as a dumping ground for all kinds of kitchen waste. She stressed that while this is happening the vermin will not go away and certain residents are making it easier for them to breed. The nearby disused garage site is another place where items of all descriptions are dumped on a daily basis. One resident who does not wish to be named claims that the rats have been in her house and chewed through her settee and also that her dog had caught and killed one in her kitchen. Her next door neighbour who again wishes not to be named says that she was peeling potatoes at her sink when she dropped a peeling on the floor. When she went to pick it up she was shocked to see a rat that appeared from nowhere take of with it and jump behind her kitchen cupboards. Residents talk freely of watching TV and seeing baby rats running across their living room floors.