In April, following the announcement by the bus company that they intended to close the bus station in Lymington High Street, we made contact with Hampshire County Council, the responsible authority for bus services locally and attended a meeting hosted by the Community Rail Partnership at Lymington Town Railway Station on 22^nd April with representatives of HCC, NFDC and Go South Coast Ltd, the local bus operator.

The bus station has now closed without adequate alternative arrangements being clearly publicised.

Andrew Wickham, Chief Executive of Go South Coast and his operations manager Lymington came to meet committee members of the Society on June 2^nd in Lymington.

The Society committee members pointed out that the bus station had been closed with very few notices of the alternative arrangements put up for the information of the public, particularly at the old bus station where one would now arrive to find some parked buses but no departures.

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June 9th Summer Garden Party 6pm-8pm – The Chantry Hollywood Lane 

With the kind permission of Ivor and Daphne Johnston the Lymington Society is very pleased to announce that their beautiful garden will be the venue of this year’s garden party.Members will be free to explore both the formal and wooded areas of the garden and catering will be provided with Pimms, wine, soft drinks and the usual delicious party snacks .

Tickets £7.50 to include refreshments

All Tickets available from:

Solent House Dental Surgery, Cannon St, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 9BR
or
Clive Sutton Solicitors, 3 The Old Printworks, 85b High St Lymington, SO41 9AN

Information to members on St Barbe Museum planning application

This posting on the website is to inform members of the current status of the St Barbe Museum planning application and the Lymington Society’s proposed response to it. It follows the meeting that took place on 10 February on which there is a brief report. It also follows the submission of the formal planning application which needs to be responded to by 1 May. The Committee have already taken time to consider the application and the following is an analysis of that consideration in the Committee’s current views.

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Notice of Lymington Society AGM.

    Wednesday the 18th of March

    Lymington Community Centre

          7.00 pm for 7.30 pm

Notice is nearby given that the AGM of the Lymington Society will take place in the Robert Hole Room at the Lymington Community Centre on Wednesday the 18th of March at 7.00 for 7.30 pm Refreshments will be served

Minutes of the 2014 AGM can be viewed here

The 2014 Accounts can be viewed here

The Agenda for the 2015 can be viewed here.

Nominations from Members wishing to stand for nomination to the Committee are invited before the meeting. Please contact Don Mackenzie at donald@donald-Mackenzie.co.uk 07860 106120 The Lymington Society Working to Protect Lymington

Lymington Society Committee have been approached by the St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery who intend to submit a planning application for a new frontage to the Museum. (Click on either of the above images to see a larger version.)

The Committee have discussed this and, without passing any opinion one way or the other, feel that the right approach for this design would be for the Society to canvass the views of its members and to hold a meeting for a presentation by the Museum and/or the architect.

The St Barbe Museum would like this meeting relatively soon and we have arranged the meeting for:

10 February at 6:30 PM in the Fuller McLennan Hall at the Community Centre.

All members are welcome to attend and no tickets will be issued so just turn up on the night. If you have any questions do contact any Committee member.

Update 8th February 2015

In order to provide some background information on the application, a letter from David Rule Chairman of the Lymington Museum Trust can be found here. It is well worth reading this in advance of the meeting.

Members will have received their newsletter by post now but an electronic copy is available to view here.

It contains details of the Society’s recent activities and updates on the forthcoming range of social activities.

The primary purpose of the Society is to protect and enhance the character of Lymington. In that it needs the support of a wide base of members. Those members need to feel involved and that has always been achieved by the Lymington Society through social events.

The difficulty has always been to find someone to organise those events particularly in a predominantly male committee. For the past several years Don has fulfilled that role admirably with his ability to encourage people to involve themselves with events and his unerring nose for the sort of events, subjects and venues which will attract people.

Under his guidance those events have fallen into a pattern of the summer garden party at various venues and the Stanwell House Christmas party and numerous lectures and events in between. Notable events have been visits to the Berthon Boat Company and a series of talks and exhibitions at the St Barbe Museum

These events did not happen by themselves. They need research and organisation of dates and venues and invitations and the food and drink and last but not least the clearing up afterwards, hopefully assisted by other members of the committee, but ultimately Don’s responsibility supported by Yvonne.

In spite of Don’s threats we have not lost his services as a committee member yet, but with the arrival of Pam Morrisey on the committee recently she has accepted the challenge to run the social committee, and over the past two or three months has played herself into the role with Don’s help and will be taking over the organisation of social events from now on.

The Committee and the Society are extremely grateful to Don and Yvonne for having carried out this role for many years so effectively and with such dedication.

Clive Sutton

Chairman