Digging News Update
As followers of this site will know there has been lots of activity lately from many members of the community involving big diggers, spades, wellies, mud, cups of tea and most importantly, cake! Well the work is still going on and has continued further with active digs in Arkholme, Quernmore, Roeburndale and Littledale. Some properties in Arkholme have received the B4RN customer property equipment which has been connected up ready for “go live” as can be seen in this set of photographs. Activity here shows the fibre being blown through the duct, (we use compressed air to blow it...
Read MoreArkholme Core Route Duct Dig Photos
Update, Monday 1st October, 7 hours late… But the dig is done. The core duct to Arkholme digital parish hub is now finished, and fibre will be blown shortly. All the photos on flickr and our facebook page. Followers of the B4RN project will already know that the digging in of the fibre ducting is well underway thanks to the outstanding work by many members of the community. The weather has not been kind to us this “summer” and this has caused understandable delays. However it has not stopped work as has been demonstrated over the last week or so in the Arkholme area. Part of...
Read MoreAbbeystead Village Hall Dig
There is a lot of activity from the various community teams around the B4RN area. The latest has been this weekend in the picturesque hamlet of Abbeystead. Some may recall that this was the village that suffered the tragedy where 16 people lost their lives and 28 were injured in the pumping station explosion on the evening of 23 May 1984. The video here shows the team working to lay duct to the stunning village hall and demonstrates the equipment available to the B4RN team, most notably the ground radar that provides a much more detailed view of what is underground allowing digging to take...
Read MoreNorth Lancashire Residents Make Broadband History
More than 100 North Lancashire residents gathered in a field near Jubilee Tower at Quernmore on Saturday to make internet history. They were all members of the B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project, a community-led company which is about to install some of the fastest internet connections in the world into homes and businesses in the area. This is being made possible by the residents themselves who are not only investing in the company and paying for fibre cables to be connected to their premises, but are getting out their shovels and digging the trenches the cables will be laid in....
Read MoreFebruary leap year newsletter
End of February Newsletter: At last night’s B4RN management meeting it was confirmed that the first target we set for funding had been well and truly surpassed, many thanks to all who have bought shares. We also have offers from farmers to dig their own, which amounts to a huge amount of class ‘B’ shares as well. CONGRATULATIONS to everyone. This possibly brings the date of the first dig into March (depending as usual on the weather). Well done everybody and keep those cheques coming in as the fundraising needs to continue! The route mappers are out doing their stuff, please...
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