Staff at our village library are inviting residents and other users to mark a special milestone with them this week – the 60th anniversary of its opening. Although never the prettiest building in Ruddington’s ‘Conservation Area’, the Church Street lending library has been serving bookworms and the wider community here since July 1963 – and most of us have become oblivious to its uninspired and dated appearance by now. It’s ironic, perhaps, that it’s ‘Inspire‘ which runs our library these days, on behalf of Nottinghamshire County Council! In fairness, Ruddington Library…
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Future of Former Charity Shop Revealed
After being closed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then failing to reopen afterwards, RUDDINGTON.info confirmed in June that, sadly, The Children’s Society Shop in our village was no more. It was a relatively short tenure at 2, Easthorpe Street for the kids’ charity, which only moved here early in 2018. Perhaps, being Ruddington’s third charity shop, it never quite achieved the custom they had hoped, despite their best efforts – with two different managers during its two years. Now the future of the premises has been revealed – as…
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