If asked to name some iconic Great British items; the old-style red phone box is up there alongside the red post box, and the double-decker bus. The famous Gilbert Scott designed K6, otherwise known as the Jubilee kiosk was launched in 1936 to celebrate King George V’s silver jubilee. By the 1960’s almost 70,000 kiosks [...]
In May 2009, Overseal Primary School, formed a partnership with two local schools, Belmont Primary and The Pingle School and five schools from Comilla, Bangladesh, including state, private and Madrassah (faith) schools. This is part of a British Council project called Connecting Classrooms. Connecting Classrooms builds lasting partnerships between schools in the UK and others [...]
In a recent conversation with Sally Parmer, Practice Nurse & Manager at the Overseal Surgery it would seem that local residents can actually get Citizens Advice support direct from the Overseal Surgery. We provide a room for CAB to see any local clients – whether our patients or not. It does not even have to [...]
The Overseal rumour mill has been hard at work again! We are able to confirm that Overseal Post Office will NOT be closing! Please circulate the good news!
Post photos | Recently added | Most views | Top rated I thought that we might have some fun whilst all this snow comes down on the village – with a little photo contest! There’s no prize, unless someone would like to donate one – but this is simply for the fun of it. Upload [...]
Dot Morson, a local Overseal resident and keen rambler recently wrote an article for the Derbyshire Biodiversity website. In the article Dot tell us about the local area and the variety of wildlife that can be seen there. “The new woodlands to the south west of Overseal are growing well. Seal Wood and Gunby Lea [...]
You will be aware the Overseal is surrounded by some outstanding countryside – some of which has been carefully re-instated following years of mineral extraction. One of the remaining ‘blots on the landscape’ is the clay extraction area known as Donington Island. This is the large opencast area to your left as you reach the [...]
Looking at the BBC Education site today, Overseal Primary is nicely positioned 61st out of all the Primary Schools in Derbyshire with above average results in English, Maths and Science. It’s great a local school performing so well for the community. The tables show the results achieved by schools in the Key Stage 2 national [...]
The Remembrance Day Service took place in the village hall at 2.30pm. I took some photos (with Michael the vicar’s permission) to put on the village web site. It was very well supported, there are more people in attendance each year and extra seats had to be fetched from the Church Hall to accomodate all the peope [...]
We are running a short (8 quick questions) survey to gauge how you currently use the Overseal Village Website and what you would like to see there in the future. The survey should take no more than 2 minutes to complete – so please spare a few minutes and help us out by letting us [...]
