Millennium Sign, Lighthorne

Image: © David P Howard Taken: 17 Oct 2010

This sign is on a grass bank to the south of The Bank near the centre of the village. It is to commemorate the millennium. The small plaque just above the stone says, "This Village sign was officially unveiled and handed into the ownership of the Lighthorne Parish Council by the Chairman of the Warwickshire County Council, Councillor Mota Singh, on behalf of the Lighthorne Millennium Committee on the 20th May 2001" The large plaque on the front of the stone says, "2000 Celebrating a village and its people. This sign was designed by Tony Hunter, a resident of the village from an original idea for a Millennium memorial by Peter Arnis, another Lighthorne resident. Incorporating local materials, it is intended to stand as a symbol of the village community. The sign is mounted on a Lighthorne stone base reclaimed from an old building once standing on The Bank. It comprises two curved pieces of English Oak symbolising the hills on either side of the village. The valley formed between the two pieces of wood contains a stainless steel symbolic silhouette of the village with the word Lighthorne joining the two wooden hills. Mounted on the stone base are two stainless steel plates. This one contains a short description of the Millennium project together with an engraved line drawing map of the village as it was at the turn of the century. On the other side is a reproduction of the electoral register for the village for the year 2000." Below the line map is a list of acknowledgements for various sponsors, and the name of the constructor A.G. Knapton. Right at the bottom is a web http://www.lighthorneonline.com/

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