The quality was fantastic and they can be really proud of what they have achieved. Let me introduce them to you:
Le Pain a la Main
Introducing our Totally local bakery, based only around the corner of Melton Road.
Jelena has been baking bread ever since her grandmother taught her over 30 years ago. Since that time, she has attended bread making courses at the prestigious School of Artisan Food on the Wellbeck Estate near to Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Le pain à la main is a new bakery producing artisan breads and pâtisseries from scratch using authentic ingredients. We deliver to West Bridgford and around Nottingham.
The business supplies local delicatessens, cafes, restaurants and independent stores in the West Bridgford and Nottingham area. The bread is baked every morning (very early) and delivered fresh and hot to our clients.
We only use four ingredients in our bread, these being: organic flour, yeast, salt and water.
Our bread has absolutely nothing else added to it and is made following traditional artisanal methods.
We offer four types of bread currently. White loaves, wholemeal loaves, Pain de Campagne Sourdough and Malthouse / Granary loaves.
Jelena and Julian will be supplying to The Tall Frog, Clumber Road Stores and C Brumpton the butchers. Their stall will be situated in front of George's Fish bar.
Launching the Bridgford Instant Gardening Project (BIG project)
On 3rd March 3 local projects will come together to facilitate quick and easy vegetable growing in West Bridgford.
If you are short of time, space and knowledge about gardening,but you enjoy freshly grown vegetables, this might just be of interest to you. Audrey Leach of Stonebridge city farm will be growing plug plants all throughout the year and will sell them at the Melton Road Markets, they will also provide a laminated planting guide so that you can grow your vegetables all year through in a very small space with only a little time.
Ark Solutions,a local manufacture of (collapsible and easy to store) chicken, rabbit and guinea pig runs has joined the project and is also selling flat pack square foot gardens (4ft x 4ft).
Mencap on Wilford Lane will be providing locally made compost to go into the gardens.
Please visit our stall on Clumber Road, behind Head2Toe.
Steve, a local wood sculptor will be there to present a variety of beautiful gooden gifts and bird feeders, made with locally sourced wood.
If residents want local facilities, whether it be shops, pubs (a subject dear to our hearts!), libraries, whatever, they need to use them as a matter of habit and not just when they run out of milk on sunday afternoon. In turn the shopkeepers need to look at sourcing of their products and go for properly (and preferably locally) produced goods for sale, so as to give themselves an edge over the supermarkets. We are proud to only use British grown malt and hops - most brewers use hops from half way round the world - and that we brew, cask and bottle all our beers locally.
Bob Douglas
Magpie Brewery
Paradigm
Paradigm Products is a business set up by a group of 16 and 17 year olds from The West Bridgford School as part of a youth business competition, ran by the young enterprise charity. This competition enables us to set up and run our own real company for a year, with the support of a business advisor.
As part of our business we are selling a new and exciting watch. We call it Snap. You simply snap it over your wrist, and watch it curl around to a snug fit. It is unique, quirky and fun and comes in a range of bright, bold colours.
We normally supply our watches through Isobel and Henry @ £10
For more information email us: Paradigm_products@hotmail.co.uk
SoSmoothies
One day in the school holidays, local teenager Ben Nichols was bored and created 2 flavors of fruit smoothie (strawberries & Banana and Pineapple & Mango). He then thought it would be a great business so of he went and designed some labels and created the brand "SoSmoothies". (This was not a typical day off school!).
The business started to grow when he asked the local shops if they would take some off him on a sale or return. This proved a sound strategy as sales figures are growing rapidly.
He is really enjoying SoSmoothies and hopes one day that they could end up on supermarket shelves.
So if you see a SoSmoothie in a shop or at a market, then for smoothies sake pick it up!
if you have any question or want ot stock SoSmoothies please email him
at sosmoothies@mail.com or phone me on 07528963569
Harrington's Handmade Fudge -
I love Fudge! When I was just 10 years old my friend came into school with some fudge her mum had made for her at home - I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever tasted, much nicer than the shop bought fudge. I begged her to give me the recipe but she didn't know how her mum had made it.
Time went by and my love affair with fudge continued into adulthood, I decided to try and make it myself - it couldn't be that difficult! Well it turned out to be quite tricky, it was too hard, it was too soft but after lots of experiments and lots of wasted ingredients I managed to get the balance right and produced what can only be described as the most delicious fudge you will ever taste! I got busy devising recipes and now have a really wide range of delicious flavours: Heavenly Dairy, Chocolate Indulgence, Chocolate Hazelnut, White Chocolate, Scottish Tablet, Baileys Fudge, to name but a few!
I buy really good quality ingredients most of which are sourced locally in independent shops in West Bridgford, and take a lot of pride in making the tastiest fudge I can. Every batch of fudge is taste tested for it's quality - there is never a lack of volunteers for that job!
Hayley and Gayle of 'Harrington's Handmade Fudge' will be in front of the Tall Frog, introducing their wonderfully locally handmade fudge. Harrington Handmade Fudge
Tel - 07908 805003
email - harringtonsfudge@hotmail.co.uk
The Vulnerable Bead
Local artists The Vulnerable bead brings their contemporary jewellery to the Melton Road Market on Saturday 5th March made from semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, sterling silver, Karen Hill Tribe silver and gold vermeil. Proceeds go charity.
Martin Thomas of Better Energy Supply our local gas supply company was explaining how his company works. If you would like to get in touch with him:
Better Energy Supply Ltd,
Telephone: 0115 846 0438,
68 Musters Road,
West Bridgford,
Nottingham
NG2 7PR
Solar Heat UK and the Fireplace Centre of Radcliffe road will be available for a chat about multi fuel stoves and Solar Thermal and Solar PV. Feed-in Tariffs etc.
Call Chris Wheelwright on 07530 914486 or email him at info@solar-heatuk.com
Ben Gibbons with organic pet treats was doing a roaring trade in front of Scotts the newsagents, not sure if they already stock his products, so just go to Scotts and check. If you would like to know more contact him on benjamin.gibbons@btinternet.com
Anne from the Service Tree was promoting her services as well as selling her home made beauty products. For more information contact her on info@theservicetree.co.uk
Corina Lucian, will be at the market with her handmade scarves.
What she says about her scarves: "I have knitted most of my life, and recently an elderly lady I met at the iceskating ring taught me how to knit these beautiful scarves. I was very excited about the new project and I knitted a number of scarves in my favourite colours thinking to offer some of them as gifts for family and friends.
A few of my customers saw them and they asked me to make some for them.
And the rest is history.
The colours you see are my favourite. However, if you find the colours are not to your liking, feel free to place an order with me with the color and style you prefer.
All the scarves are hand knitted by me and they make beautiful birthdays or Xmas presents.
Warm regards
Corina Lucian
Tel 07815804498
www.saloncorina.co.uk
Gerry from KiddyCook decorated gingerbread men and promoted her kiddy cook parties
Gerry Carnell
Kiddy Cook Nottingham Central
07540 061725
www.kiddycook.co.uk/nottingham-central
Paul Carroll photography is promoting a £50 Christmas family portrait offer. For more information contact him on: info@paulcarrollphoto.com
Martin Thomas of Better Energy Supply our local gas supply company was explaining how his company works. If you would like to get in touch with him:
Better Energy Supply Ltd,
Telephone: 0115 846 0438,
68 Musters Road,
West Bridgford,
Nottingham
NG2 7PR
Ben Gibbons with organic pet treats was doing a roaring trade in front of Scotts the newsagents, not sure if they already stock his products, so just go to Scotts and check. If you would like to know more contact him on benjamin.gibbons@btinternet.com
‘Alice & Rose’ a new place to shop for bespoke and individual hair accessories for weddings, parties, festivals or just because you want to add a bit of sparkle...
‘Alice & Rose’ have combined their background in Fashion and Interior Design to handcraft hair accessories inspired by current trends, using flowers, beading, trimmings, and sequins to make unique hair accessories. We make hair accessories to coordinate with a particular dress colour or theme too!
Alice & Rose Vintage
Alice Dean 07747 038665
Rosie Clarke 07709 436985
aliceandrose@hotmail.co.uk
Anne from the Service Tree was promoting her services as well as selling her home made beauty products. For more information contact her on info@theservicetree.co.uk
Eden Bea Vintage specialise in unique pieces of pre-loved Jewellery, handbags
and accessories. Each item is hand selected for it's timeless beauty dating from
1920-1980. We provide home parties; its a great excuse to get friends together to have a 'Vintage Party', and if you book your own party you will
receive free use of fine bone china for the evening. We also offer hostess rewards for holding the party. Our pretty vintage tea
cups, Cake stands and tea pots add to the overall experience, and don't feel you
need to only serve tea, gin cocktails and wine all taste great from fine bone! We also offer a vintage styling service alongside,
which is ideal for hen do parties which we are already booking for 2012.
For more info please like us on facebook Eden-Bea-Vintage or follow us on twitter edenbea_vintage.
Memories of the last Melton Road Market
