Calverton is luckier than most of the United Kingdom's many villages because it can boast of a free monthly magazine, namely 'The Echo.'
The Editor/Publisher is Dorothy Keig
'The Echo' is Published at:
Grange Farm Cottage,
Oxton, (near Southwell)
Nottingham
NG25 0RG
Telephone: 01623 882001
To the left you can see four examples of the magazines
many and varied front covers.
By February 2004, the Echo was onto it's 57th edition.
In it you can find regular columns by:
Methodist Church Minister
Baptist Church Minister
Calverton Parish Council
Preservation & History Society
Women's Institute
British Legion
Twinning Association
Village news is regularly to the forefront.
The angling results for the Miners Welfare are always
at hand.
Many annual events are covered.
Village-get-together
Horticultural Show
etc. etc.
Readers write is a column where locals can vent off their anger or alternatively show their pleasure.
The Local Area Commander, for the police, answers many questions too.
Want to know whats on at the pubs and clubs?
Look no further.
Every month 3,200 copies of the Echo are published and
every household and business in Calverton receives one.
The Library, Garage, Core Centre, Patchings Art Centre
and all of the four pubs have copies too.
'The Echo' survives (don't forget - it's free) on adverts.
So if you would like to advertise in your Local Community Journal for as little as £7.
Please Telephone: 01623 882001
Thanks go to all the advertisers who keep 'The Echo' going and a special thank you to Horace Thackray for all his hard work, stories and pictures.