Travel agents win
top branch award
AN excellent team effort has landed Travelcare of Liskeard with some top recognition as they have just been made 'Branch of the Year South West 2001'.
Branch manager Claire Hoskin travelled from Manchester to Ludlow by Orient Express with other award winners and received a handsome glass plaque which is now proudly displayed in the Travelcare office in Pike Street.
Travelcare, part of the Co-operative Group, first opened in Liskeard in 1989, and it is the first time it has won such an award.
'We are delighted to have gained such a big achievement for a small branch like ours,' said Claire, 'especially when you take into consideration that the South West region is as far as Oxford, and we were against the much larger outlets such as Plymouth and Bristol.
"We would like to thank all our customers for continuing to support us'.
SOON to be on display in the new town museum at the Foresters Hall in Pike Street, Liskeard, will be the large illuminated acknowledgement presented to J C Isaac in 1869 to mark the generous gift to the borough of the town clock, which is on the Guildhall Tower.
The illumination has been loaned by John Clarke Isaac, a name given to the eldest son of the Liskeard merchant family for several generations. Mr Isaac is the great grandson of the town's former benefactor, and resides in Cambridgeshire.
The loan was made possible by Duncan Matthews who made the collection and delivered it to Heather Medlen, museum co-ordinator, Dr Joanna Mattingly, curatorial adviser, and Pat Doidge, a volunteer. Also in the line up is Roger Matthews.
Picture: John Rapson, Liskeard.