The 2014 Lovely Louth Awards

September 17th 2014

On Tuesday September 16th the annual awards ceremony for Lovely Louth took place. The organiser, David Fairburn, introduced the awards. Mr Fairburn has been involved with Lovely Louth for many years. The Mayor, Andrew Leonard, presented the awards.

Perennial planting visible from the road is a fairly new category, which was instituted in 2013. This category is all about sustainability. In 2013 Mr H. Kerman won it, as he did this year, but this time there were more entrants and therefore more awards given out.

Class 1: Shops and business premises

Place	Winner
1st	Stewton House
2nd	Lakings Of Louth
3rd	M. & G. Designs

Class 2: Licensed premises

Place	Winner
1st	The Wheatsheaf - L. Proctor
2nd	The King's Head - Sharon Davies
3rd	The Gaslamp Lounge

Class 3: Private houses - frontage display of tubs, hanging baskets and window boxes

Place	Winner
1st	John and Christine Taylor
2nd	Mrs M. Neal
3rd	G. Stephenson
4th =	Heather Ellis
4th =	Patricia Varley
6th	Mrs Jean Tero

Class 4: Private houses - gardens visible from the road

I didn't photograph any winners in this category, and they weren't mentioned at the ceremony, so I'm not sure what happened in this category in 2014.

Class 5: Private houses - gardens visible from the road, senior citizens

Place	Winner
1st	Mr A. Evison
2nd	Mr M. Dawson
3rd	The residents of the Bede Houses

Class 6: Private houses - perennial planting visible from the road

Place	Winner
1st	Mr Harry Kerman
2nd	Margaret Welton
3rd =	Mrs M.R. Gray
3rd =	Ann Stimson

Louth In Bloom

In Nottingham, Louth was awarded a silver gilt for its entry in the East Midlands In Bloom competition. The town missed out on a coveted gold award by only five points this year. In addition, the London Road cemetery gained a judges award, and the Town Clerk, Linda Blankley, was given a prize for the town's pennant.

Councillor Sue Locking said: "I want to thank everybody who supported us this year. I'm fairly confident we'll get the gold next year."

In 2015 a river of flowers is planned along the riverbank of the Lud.