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CHARLOTTE Bronte’s birthday is being celebrated today with a pop art community project in the village where she was born. The Bronte Zines - quaint booklets packed with facts and puzzles about the literary sisters’ lives and work - have been created by local artist Rosie McAndrew and are being distributed in Thornton, where the world-famous family lived before Haworth. The project is part of a cultural programme promoting Thornton as the Brontes’ birthplace. In March 2020 South Square Centre in the village received National Lottery Heritage funding for a capital refurbishment and ...

CHARLOTTE Bronte’s birthday is being celebrated today with a pop art community project in the village where she was born.

MEET Emily, Charlotte and Anne - three bats found in a Thornton roof whose new home is a replica of the Brontes’ birthplace in the village. The Pipistrelle bats, found at South Square Centre during restoration work, have been named after the Bronte sisters. And the South Square team has worked with local ecologists on creating a rather special home for the nocturnal creatures. “Thornton is famous for being the birthplace of the Brontes,” said Yvonne Carmichael, director of the centre. “South Square does a lot of work around the family, so it was only right that we named our bats...

HAWORTH’S legendary Bronte sisters have had everything from hotels to biscuits named in their honour, but probably not bats ­– until now! Three pipistrelles found to be regular visitors to the roof space of a building close to the birthplace of the famous literary siblings have been ‘christened’ Charlotte, Emily and Anne. And a special bat box has been created for them, which is a scaled-down replica of the house the sisters were born in just a few minutes’ walk away. The bats were discovered by workmen when they started renovations at the South Square Centre, a heritage ar...

Boyes hopeful of staying in Lincoln after store closure Company looking for a new city location Boyes was previously located in the City Square Centre in Lincoln. | Photo: The Lincolnite Boyes is hopeful of remaining in Lincoln as it continues the search for a new location after the closure of its store in the city. The family-owned discount store located in the City Square Centre started to wind down in January this year and became more and more empty as the weeks went by before it closed for good in February. However, W Boyes and Company is still hopeful it can remain in the city and is lo...