The Water Gardens will be inundated with thousands of people on Saturday for the shopping centre’s fourth annual fun day.
This year, visitors at the art galleries, shops and cafes in Harlow will be able to enjoy activities such as donkey rides and a pirate fun run, and watch live performances by the Harlow Steel Band. There will also be a fortune teller and Punch and Judy shows.
There will be an addition to the clothes shops in Harlow, with a new independent charity chop which aims to help people stop smoking. The QUIT shop will be the first shop for the charity in the south of England.
If you fancy a day of fun at The Square’s two bars in Harlow, get yourself down to vintage lifestyle magazine Milkcow’s first anniversary party! It promises to be a day of music and mayhem, and will feature live music from The Caravans, The Bonneville Barons, The Mojokings, Daddy Slikshift, The Ladykillers and Jezebel.
A new development that was set to create flats, shops and cafes in Harlow is facing opposition from Harlow Civic Society, who work to protect and preserve the town’s heritage.
The plans by Luminus are for the creation of a residential redevelopment at the site of the formal NCP multi-storey car park on Kitson Way. The company want to demolish the car park and replace it with a “tall and slender tower” that will include 170 flats, and a commercial boulevard of shops and cafes in Harlow. Around 30% of the flats will be designated as affordable housing.
Hospice staff, volunteers and employees of companies supporting this year’s St Clare’s Hospice Midnight Walk were out in force handing out leaflets and pink cakes in Harlow to mark the start of the registration process for the 2011 walk that will take place on Saturday the 18th June.
If you’re a bit of a film buff who loves British film classics, head down to Harlow Playhouse over the next two months for their British film season.
The Playhouse will be screening classics from every decade since 1940, beginning with the family fantasy The Thief of Baghdad (U), followed by the Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob (U) from 1951, then the 1964 Beatles mockumentary A Hard Day’s Night (U).
The seventies and eighties will be represented by the mod classic Quadrophenia (18), and then the 1985 Merchant-Ivory adaptation A Room With A View (PG).
Those of you looking for romantic comedies featuring love and weddings in Harlow will be pleased to hear that the hugely popular 1994 Hugh Grant film Four Weddings and a Funeral (15). For the Easter holidays there will be a screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (PG), and the season will close with the multi Bafta and Oscar winning The King’s Speech (12A).
YMCA Vintage in Little Walk, the Quit charity shop, Munchies Cakes in the Harvey Centre and Harlow Piercings Studios and Body jewellers in Harlow are among 12 stores that are participating and getting involved in the Pieces Of A Dream Arts Trail which showcases pieces by local artists. The event is aiming to increase Harlow’s reputation as an artistic town, and the artists involved are staging a music extravaganza and ambitious arts event in the town centre.
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If you are looking for a place where you can use computers and printers in Harlow, you are in luck. A new internet café is opening in the area that offers free web use, career advice and community support.
Builders in Harlow have had the go-ahead to build seven homes on a site in High Wych. East Herts councilors granted consent for Grange Builders in Harlow to demolish the bungalow at Dovedale to make way for three affordable three-bedroom homes and four detached five- and six-bedroom properties with garaging. The proposed number of homes is above the guidance regarding building in the area, but the high quality of the homes convinced councilors to agree to the build.
