Story and photos: Bill Evans
It must be one of Ormskirk's best kept secrets for retirement living...
And now the ‘new’ committee at The Fountains on Green Lane has been working with owners FirstPort with great success!
With money in its ‘contingency fund’, there were big plans for summer...
These included decoration of the communal lounge, along with a new kitchen and toilet, plus revamping the 'jaded' pond and redecorating every corridor and front doors of its 68 apartments - in all costing c. £67,000.
But Covid-19 put a halt on most of this, bar the pond; we searched for a ‘designer’ and found John T. Murphy from Southport; his portfolio had Southport Visiter news of him winning all sorts of prizes at the Southport Flower Show.
‘Jonty’ as we called him arrived with a portfolio of very impressive work before giving us a design, then a quotation - and away we went.
‘Lockdown’ rules didn’t apply to an outside gardener, so it was a perfect time for us watching the work going on.
QLocal's been invited back for its official opening soon.