Melton Mowbray Town Estate

AMBITIOUS: TOWN'S PLAN TO HOST BRITISH OPEN SWINGS INTO ACTION

A town is setting its sights on holding the British Open - for crazy golf.

The Melton Town Estate charity is aiming to put the town on the sporting map with an 18-hole course ready to host leading international crazy golfers.

Work will start over the winter converting a nine-hole course at its town centre sports ground in Leicester Road into an 18-hole course ready for national and international competition.

From the Melton Times by Ben Truslove.

See the Slideshow at the Melton Times website.

It was an emotional day when veterans and current service men and women re-dedicated Melton War Memorial.

Representatives from veteran organisations, the Defence Animal Centre, Police, Melton Council and the Town Estate lined the new flagstones to officially mark the refurbished upper level.

The restoration of Melton's carousel bandstand has been celebrated with a centenary concert which drew a large appreciative audience to New Park on Sunday. Watch and listen to the Town Estate's Celebratory March at the Melton Times.

The restoration of Melton's carousel bandstand has been celebrated with a centenary concert which drew a large appreciative audience to New Park on Sunday. Watch the Slideshow at the Melton Times.

From the Melton Times.

A CENTENARY celebration will take place in Melton on Sunday to mark 100 years of band concerts. It will be 100 years since Thursday, August 2, 1909, when the first concert took place in the new carousel bandstand and landscaped New Park.

The bandstand was restored to its former glory in 2008 as part of the Town Estate's Big Picture Appeal to rejuvenate Melton parks.

From the Melton Times.

A prominent face of Melton retired on Tuesday after 21 years running the street market.

Joan Burns stepped down from her position as Melton Town Estate officer responsible for the Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday markets and is looking forward to getting a holiday.

From the Melton Times.

A fractious year for Melton's Town Estate was rounded off at a fiery meeting last night which saw the largest turnout in years.

From BAR Removals & Storage Magazine.

W. Southerington & Sons Ltd. has given an unusual gift to the Town Estate in Melton Mowbray - a footbridge over the River Eye made at a cost of £60,000.

The bridge was given as a thank you for the support and business Melton Mowbray has given W. Southerington & Sons Ltd over the last 116 years. The bridge is named after John Southerington, director of the company, who in recent years had been a junior and senior town warden before becoming a member of the Feoffee's management committee for the Town Estate.

From the Leicester Mercury.

A Footbridge over the River Eye in Melton has been officially opened.

The bridge links New Park with the Leicester Road sports ground in the town.

From the Melton Times.

The first phase of the Town Estate's Big Picture Appeal to rejuvenate Melton's parks is nearing fruition.

The refurbished playground in Play Close is proving very popular, the bandstand in New Park has been re-roofed and a new all-weather five-a-side football pitch at Leicester Road Sports Ground will soon be ready for kick-off.