The Harborough Mail this week posted a story about a UFO sighted from Great Bowden and asks the question “Is this a UFO?”. My answer to that would be, “YES” of course it is, because we cannot Identify it and it is flying. Maybe they should have asked, “Is this extraterrestrial?”, but I suppose this is implied by the word UFO as it’s taken on this meaning and lost the Unidentified Flying Object that it was originally used for.

This leads me to wonder when does an object become a UFO and who deems it so? This is an extract from wikipeadia…

Some, such as the USAF, who originally coined the term in 1952, define UFOs as only those objects remaining unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators, while other definitions call something a UFO from the time it is first reported as being unidentified.

So this odd shaped object in the sky could indeed be called a UFO.

I found this interesting painting of old Market Harborough. It shows the Grammar School and St Dionysius Church with everyday life taking place. I don’t know when this was painted but it’s interesting to see that not much has changed since the horse & cart era.

What particularly interested me was what, at first, looks like a gallows on the left. With closer inspection I guess this was a contraption for moving items from the backs of wagons into a local store and not where criminals met their maker.

I may take a photo from the same angle to compare the 2 scenes. Pop back to have a check.

Mmmmm it appears that Springfield Retail Park in Market Harborough has been sold. This is the Old Cattle Market area as far as I can make out, meaning Homebase, Brantano, In-Store and Sainsburys.

Springfield retail park in Market Harborough has been bought by an investor advised by Briant Champion Long for £9.1m – a net initial yield of 6.5%.

Source: propertyweek.com

Now, what, if anything, does this mean for the town? Will it mean new stores, or is this just an investor wishing to get a stake in our lovely town?

Comments on this would be welcomed.

The Rubber Factory has gone, the groundworks have been dug and now the new development by the river side is rising to the Harborough skies. But what does this mean for our (not so) little town?

Will it mean a thriving community development or more vacant ‘apartments’? Already the second plaza phase has been shelved which’d make me think the future’s not bright. A pessimistic view I know, but hey, how many flats can a town sustain?

I hope they manage to complete the extension to the Millennium Mile and the new foot bridge over the River Welland.