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Pat McLaughlin
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Pat represents the Shropshire Association of Parish and Town Councils on the Market Drayton Economic Forum and is concerned to build the connection between the town and the surrounding parishes. Pat was brought up in Whitchurch. The house had a big garden and the
family grew their own vegetables throughout the war. Pat remembers
rearing a duck for Christmas dinner and having to be there when the
coal man came to kill it. At 19 she went to train as a teacher completing
her dissertation on Cheshire Cheese for which she has a passion. She
recalls spending 15 weeks in the local factory following the whole
process to the point where the cheese was graded at the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries. Pat taught in the Black Country for 35
years mainly PE. She took the children on field study trips to her
sister's farm in South Shropshire
Pat now lives in Ellesmere and has been a town councillor since 1987. The two main employers manufacture equipment for the dairy industry. She was Mayor when Dairy Crest put their storage site up for sale. There followed two public inquiries. |
The site is still derelict. The focus has moved onto plans for the development of the area surrounding the mere. Pat is Chair of the Shropshire Tourism Board and concerned to increase the number of visitors into North Shropshire. The transport structure across North Shropshire is poor but the area produces some of the best food and offers a very pleasant countryside. There is however, a need to develop quality accommodation within the towns. Where there are places in the countryside that offer good accommodation and food visitors come back. |
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Pat hopes she will draw from
the network support to encourage visitors from the urban areas to
look beyond the pleasant countryside and experience something of
the best that rural living has to offer and take back with them
locally produced, non supermarket packaged, food. |
Pat offers to the network her
own network of contacts to promote local tourism and is willing
to help build contact with the local parishes. |
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Contact:
Telephone: 01691 622097
E-mail: pmcl-ellesmere@amserve.com.