10 years ago New team to greet bus passengers Coach visitors to Stamford will now be greeted at the bus station by the new team of Stamford Ambassadors. Working in pairs, the ambassadors will be wearing Georgian costumes, in harmony with Stamford's image as a Georgian town. Stamford Town Team, which was set up to boost town centre trade is behind the idea.
Chairman of Stamford Town Team Tim Lee said: Many visitors to Stamford arrive at the bus station. Creative minds come together for new project More than 70 people put on their thinking caps to get creative and help with a new art project. The launch event for the Now Then mural scheme in Oakham was held at the Victoria Hall on Saturday.
Scores of people turned out to offer their photographs, stories and views of the town for the new mural which will be displayed on the wall at the Co-operative Funeralcare in Gaol Street. The project will celebrate the industrial heritage of the site and is being led by artist Monica Fernandez, who lives in the town. She said: "The highlight of the event was meeting Mr and Mrs Marlow who contributed to the project with an invaluable archive of pictures of Oakham, including a shot of the mural site from the 1950s.
“Their collection revealed the site of the future mural was the jail of Oakham in the late 19th century. "They even had the original copies of prisoner's sentences in 1870. When people like this take action, they bring the project to its popular splendour.
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