Our representative on the City of York Council is John Galvin, who stood in the last local election for the Conservatives. Mr Galvin lives in Bishopthorpe, and has recently retired. This will give him more time for local affiars, and for the cacti and succulents that he grows and tends in his greenhouse.
Now Mr Galvin has accepted an invitation from the Bish dot net team to write his own web log on the site. You can read his thoughts here.
Our Bishopthorpe web site has been funded by the Millennium Trust and private donations since it was set up, at a cost of about only £50 a year. All the efforts to keep it going have been by voluntary effort.
Now the City of York Bishopthorpe Ward Committee has made a grant of £500 towards the costs of promoting the site and upgrading its software. This grant is being managed by the Trust.
A small team of local people has been meeting to consider the next steps. One objective is to ensure that as many as possible local businesses are included in the Purple Pages directory. Residents will be able to shop locally, and visitors, who use the site to check on what's on, cn find out what and when is on offer.
Community groups can also have entries on the Purple Pages directory. The Bowling Club is a recent addition with its exemplary entry; all groups are encouraged to get on the site and ensure that they get the publicity they deserve.
Some changes have been made to the layout of Bishopthorpe dot net.
The first is the creation of a new News and Views site (that you are reading now), which also has a new look and feel, and is a little easier to navigate.
Fronting the web site is a new home page that welcomes you to the overall site. This is located at the internet address where you have been used to reading the latest news.
This means that you will need an extra click to reach the news and views page (unless you bookmark it and go straight to it). To offset this disadvantage, the new home page however will draw your attention to new features that are planned, and will allow facilities that the software used for the news, transport or Parish Council pages makes less easy to provide.
We hope you like the new layouts as they develop.
Yesterday - New Year's Day - this site recorded its ten thousandth visitor to the home page.
Happy New Year to all its Readers!
The Bishopthorpe web site has been running for a couple of years now. It is funded by the Bishopthorpe Millennium Trust. It has separate sections, for example for Bishopthorpe affairs and news, the Millennium Trust, the Crossroads village centre scheme, transport information, and local clubs and groups.
Anyone can have information on the site. Clubs and groups can have details of their latest activities. The Local History Group for example has its own section. The web site also allows you to have a local email address (@bishopthorpe.net) that you can access anywhere on the web. It is free, and free of advertising.
The site is regularly read by local people, and also by friends and relatives outside the village. Visitors also use it to try to find out about local information.To extend the scope and usefulness of the site, local organisations are invited to send in their news and we can put this up on the site at any time. To do this just send an email to mailstuff at bishopthorpe dot net, or post a disk to Mailman, 29 Lang Road. Digital photos are always welcome. If you have a web site, let us know so we can put a link to that too.
We are also developing the Purple Pages. It has two new sections: A Business Section - if you want to advertise your business, and a Local Directory of organisations. Please drop us a line as above if you want to be included. You can download forms to fill in to get an entry:
A new section of the web site has been launched covering the services of our local medical practice.
It contains in the first instance the same information from its practice leaflet, and is available online here.
The Bishopthorpe Local History Group has put on a display about the people and events in Bishopthorpe during the second world war. The group has also started its own web pages. You can read more about this here.
A new section of this web site has been created to bring you up to date information and news and other stuff about this much talked about event.
Just click on the link on the Links section to the right.
You can post comments on the Ascot pages, and if you want to contribute something new - what's all the fuss about? - just email us.
Village site alive and kicking
Some people seem to think that this web site has been left to wither on the vine - but that's far from the truth. It's just that nobody has been contributing, so it looks fossilised. You are now looking at the new site, one that will be more dynamic and easier for us to update.
Our new look and feel will be evolving from now on, and will more closely resemble an ever-changing newspaper, and be much easier for contributors to use. However in many respects it will work in the same way. For instance the forums and the Village Calendar will still be there, and the email list won't be affected at all. The address www.bishopthorpe.net won't change either.
This page contains an archive of all entries posted to Bishopthorpe News and Views in the Website News category. They are listed from newest to oldest.
Transport Information is the previous category.
What's On is the next category.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.