Thank you to everybody who came along to the History, Music and Thank you event in the Church on Sunday. And a very special thanks to Off Grid for rounding off the event.
Anne Raitt is hoping to gather some more signatures for the card so if you would like to add your name – please contact her.
The 1963 film showing the refurbishment of the church at that time lasts for 30 minutes – the file was too big to upload. But here is a short version to give you a flavour.
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This will affect households that use an older electricity meter for heating their home and for hot water, with some types of electricity meter needing changed. As part of this partnership, NWS is helping to raise awareness of this issue in Scotland.
RTS is a radio-based system introduced in the 1980s which enabled older electricity meters to switch between peak and off-peak rates. RTS is used for some traditional multi-rate meters and was designed to support those who use electricity for their heating and hot water. This may include those who use electric storage systems, panel heaters or immersion heaters in water tanks – some of which typically charge up overnight.
RTS is now reaching the end of its natural operational life. This means that the equipment that produces the radio signal cannot be adequately maintained anymore.
The Radio Teleswitch service is due to be closed from 30 June 2025 so if you have one, it will need to be upgraded before that happens.
If you are not sure whether you have an RTS meter, there are a few things you can look out for:
If you decide not to upgrade, the heating and/or hot water provisions in your home or business could be affected.- Your heating and hot water may not work correctly. You may find that your heating and/or hot water is left continually switched on or off; or the charging-up happens at the wrong time of day.
On Sunday 8th June at 3pm everyone is invited to come along to Garvald Church for a short but sure-to-be-interesting event to acknowledge the generosity of Linda Leith in buying the Church and making it available for the community.
There will be some history, some stories, some music, a special performance by the band Off Grid, and then refreshments (including cake) in the Stables
The 72nd Annual Garvald Village Show takes place on Saturday 23rd August 2025. We look forward to another successful event.
The attached schedule provides details of the show categories and and how to take part: Garvald Show Schedule 23rd August 2025
The show depends on the volunteers that help out so if you are interested in helping out on the day, or in assisting with the set-up of the show, please contact Malcolm via the contact form, below:
| Please see below for important information about Haddington Post Office , 50 Court Street, Haddington, East Lothian, EH41 3UU.
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Stantec has been appointed as consultants by East Lothian Council to advise on and conduct Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) consultation for Haddington.
East Lothian Council is proposing to change the parking restrictions in Haddington. At this stage of the process, we are seeking views and suggestions for how to improve the parking in and around Haddington. No order has been drafted yet. This phase of consultation will feed into a decision whether a TRO is necessary and what form that TRO will take.
This first phase of public consultation will be open from 19th May, closing on 30th June.
To view the consultation materials and the areas under consideration, please go to https://tinyurl.com/EastLothianParking
We have included the following information on the website:
We will also be hosting two events in Haddington during the consultation period where you can view hard copies of these materials and have an opportunity to discuss the parking restrictions within the town with officers from the Council and Stantec.
These events will take place at the following location and times:
Following these events, the hard copies of these materials will be available at any East Lothian library.
If you have any questions relating to this phase of consultation, please email Haddingtonparking@eastlothian.gov.uk. We will aim to respond to your query within five working days from receipt of the email.
Small update: we had planned to have two researchers who discovered that whale song has language-like statistical structure this Thursday at the Garvald Inn. However, one of them is unable to make it.
In her place, alongside Simon Kirby, we will have Carrie Figdor, a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Edinburgh who is here to work on evolution and language use in non-human animals.
This Thursday, 8 – 10pm at the Garvald Inn. Hope to see you there.
UPDATE: please bring some snacks / nibbles / light bites on Friday night as well as your preferred drink. This is instead of a meal-based event which we usually have. This keeps things simple and takes the pressure off planning a little!
See you there!