British Blinds is a business in Tong Park, Baildon that manufactures window blinds and curtains.
The business is called British Blinds and is a franchise.

Monday to Friday 9.30am to 5.00pm
Saturday mornings 9.30 - 1.30
01274 717952.

Website - British Blinds

There are currently approx 15 franchisees that operate all over the UK and Ireland. The Head Office and manufacturing unit is in Baildon and has recently opened a Factory Outlet selling their products direct to the public at discounted prices.
They have had an extremely good start to 2010 and already signed up 3 new franchisees who will be operating in Morpeth, Edinburgh and London.
There is a 4th new franchisee coming on at the end of March who will operate in Derby.
This will undoubtedly create new jobs within the factory and organisation and they will look to employ the residents of Baildon in a bid to put something back into the community.

Sometime over the weekend the Baildon Village website was hacked by what appeared to be a Turkish Red Beret group.

The main site changes I was worried about were all the recent additions for the 2010 calendar of the Denso Marston Nature Reserve activities. Fortunately these have not been lost.

I have several things in place that should make it difficult for the site to be hacked and also frequent backups so the site can be restored but if you notice that the site has been hacked please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it - and Yes, I know that if the site has been hacked you probably won't see this message but an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it will get to me so please let me know.

Thanks.

On December 17th 2009 Baildon saw the most snowfall since………. the last time it snowed.

No one would have believed that since the 1^st Wacky Scarecrow Event held in 2008 that Baildon Village was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s.......No one gave a thought to the bales of hay and straw that disappears from local farmer’s fields would be a source of human danger...... Yet across the gulf of one year, busy minds were at work, scheming, thinking, plotting & deciding how to avenge the fact Farmers no longer used a friendly chap to protect the crops.

These bits of straw when combined together with old clothes took the shape of human form.  These “Scarecrow” creatures regarded Baildon village with envious eyes, and slowly and surely they drew their plans against us.