FROPS 2010 AGM - Thursday 4^th November

The FrOPS 2010 AGM will take place Thursday 4^th November, 2010.

The FroPS AGM will be held on Thursday 4th November at 7 pm, at Eccles Fire Station.  We are hoping to have a few speakers and will be sending out more information once they have confirmed that they will be coming.

Any further information will be updated here.

Railway 180^th Anniversary Celebration

Patricroft Station Open Day - Saturday 11^th September 2010

To celebrate the 180^th Anniversary of the Liverpool - Manchester Railway

At:     Station Forecourt

Patricroft Railway Station
Green Lane
Patricroft

Saturday 11^th September 2010, 11am to 2pm

Meet Queen Victoria who will be arriving at Patricroft Station on the train at 12:49.

* Stalls * History display * Quiz

Discover days out from Patricroft

See what improvements the Friends (FrOPS) have made

Free return rail journey from Patricroft to Eccles on 11^th September 2010 between 11am and 2pm

Supported by

Salford City Council and Northern Rail

Students from St Patrick's Roman Catholic High School and Arts College will be exhibiting poster artwork showcasing the industrial and railway heritage of the Eccles and Patricroft area at Eccles Community Art Gallery from Saturday 19^th June, 2010.

The Friends of Patricroft Station (FrOPS) would like to invite you to attend this local community event at the Eccles Community Art Gallery. The exhibition will run for four consecutive Saturdays, commencing on 19^th June 2010.  It will present a project by students of St Patrick’s RC Secondary School, Winton, who have created a set of posters for FrOPS, to be displayed at Patricroft Station.

The exhibition will be launched at 10.30 a.m. by the Mayor of Salford, Councillor George Wilson, accompanied by the Mayoress, Mrs Carole Wilson.

The students have worked with their teacher, Charles Magee, and an artist from Hot Bed Press, Amanda Tolley, to produce screen prints reflecting local industrial and railway history.

We hope that you will come to the exhibition to support the work of the students.  Please distribute this article to anyone you know who may be interested in what should be an important event for the community of Eccles and Patricroft.

Hot Bed Press (www.hotbedpress.org) is a not-for-profit, open access, printing workshop located in the Chapel Street ‘cultural quarter’ of Salford.

The collaboration has been supported by the City Council through the Environmental Education Team, the Community Arts Development Team and the Eccles Neighbourhood Management Team. Space for the exhibition has been made available by Karen Illingworth of the Eccles Community Art Gallery.

Eccles Community Art gallery (07981791475) is a not-for-profit Community Interest Group, located in Boothway, Eccles. It aims to present artwork/crafts from local artists and art clubs, and offers community tables for other local interest groups to promote their work or recruit new members.

FrOPS (www.frops.org.uk) is a community group dedicated to improving the environment of Patricroft Station in order to attract more rail users to the station in Green Lane, Patricroft.

 

The exhibition launches SATURDAY 19^TH JUNE and runs for four consecutive Saturdays at Eccles Community Art Gallery, located on Boothway in Eccles Shopping Centre

FrOPS volunteers planted bulbs and plants at Patricroft Station on Sunday 21st March 2010 - click on images to enlarge to full size (2048x1536, c.0.5MB each) - helping to enhance the environment for rail users at the station and to those passengers passing through Patricroft

FrOPS thanks everybody who helped make this a success, both those on the day and those who helped bring it about.