Heritage Centre gets planning permission
On the 14th January 2010 the Bolton council planning permission meeting approved the plans for the conversion of Fred former home to a Heritage Centre.
Initially there was concerns from local residences regarding the amount of traffic and parking disruption that the Heritage centre would bring to the area, but the current owners have made a deal with Metro Taxis to provide free transfers to and from Bridge Centre car park in Bedford street. (Ed: does anyone have details/tel/web/email for Metro Taxis, they deserve some extra business for helping out)
Other details that have come out are :
- The centre will be open four days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday as well as all bank Holidays, from 10am until 5pm
- There will be two visitor sessions with a maximum of 15 people per session
- All visitors will have to pre-book
- About £500,000 is needed to make all the improvements needed to open the centre
- The centre is planning to open on Fred’s birthday: 28th April 2010
Donations should be sent to 121 Radcliffe Road, Bolton, BL2 1NU or emailing freddibnahtours@live.com or by visiting the Official Heritage Centre’s Official eBay page.
Media Links:
It’s full steam ahead for Fred house museum The Bolton News
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well this is great news well done and i hope to see you soon!!!!
FANTASTIC NEWS CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL INVOLVED I KNEW IT WOULD ALL TURN OUT OK IN END WELL DONE EVERYBODY
LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU SOON
That is such good news, fantastic for all generations to be able to visit and understand something of this works of this great man. Common sense has won out, now only the dreaded health & safety to get around !!!! We look forward to our visit.
Its grand to here such good news.