Category: Environment Group

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

THE VILLAGE GREEN AND MEMORIAL

On an absolutely beautiful morning we tidied up around the village green and memorial, where the beds we planted up for the Jubilee are looking good. Gareth sing song had to work twice as hard today because his gang was somewhat depleted as big John had to renew his pilot’s licence to help out the shortages in the aviation industry and bright Brian has been summoned to the Home Office. We will have to grill him on his return to get the gossip.

The next meeting will be on the 11th of July to clear overgrowth on Tarrws Lane and weed the border at the Community Centre.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

THE TEAM PREPARE FOR THE PLATINUM JUBLIEE

The memorial soldier overseeing the planting up of flower beds in red, white and blue for the Jubilee.

Greenmoor Nursery in St Brides, Wentloog, gave us a huge discount and some free plants when he realised the work the team does and the quite unbelievable age of the personnel. Always a pleasure to go there; the plants are reasonable and in great condition.

We hope that you will enjoy this splash of colour to mark the Platinum Jubilee.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

BURYING A TIME CAPSULE

The Environment Group

The Environment Group will meet again on the 13th June and part of their work will involve burying a time capsule to celebrate the Jubilee. Team member Gareth ‘sing song’ will bring along some photographic plates of him performing at the palace, on the birth of Her Majesty.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

On a glorious April morning the somewhat under strength team formed a couple of flower beds around the memorial stone in preparation to celebrate the Jubilee in June. The area will be planted up in royal colours hopefully at our next gathering; we will need to add some more soil to help make the beds visible from the road.

While digging our resident choirmaster Gareth sing song unearthed some interesting artefacts which are at least a hundred years old, We know this as one of the team who shall remain nameless said he remembered nicking the bottle from the back of the pub as a teenager. Now we know why he wears a Tag.

Our next meeting will be at the same venue on Monday May 9th at 9.30am.

If anyone has some red, white or blue bedding plants that would be great, thank you.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

On Monday 14th March the team set about tidying up the front border and removing rubbish from under the hedge of the conifers at the Community Centre. A couple of members were absent. The usual reasons for not turning up are forgetting the day or not remembering where we are supposed to be working. This problem has now been resolved by Big John who has set up a What’s App group; the really old ones are being fitted with trackers by their carers. One member has a tracker on his ankle fitted by a government official, he claims it’s because they may need to contact him if an emergency arises!!

Next meeting – 11th April at 9.30 by the library.

The building on the immediate right is part of the Old School (the headmaster’s office), which is now the Com-munity Centre. Next door is the headmaster’s home followed by the old police house where the infamous Dai Cannon now resides.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

The orchid field has now been cut and we can see what work needs to be done. There are paths to keep clear, overgrowth along the boundary, cut material to be collected and burnt etc. If you would like to volunteer in helping to maintain the area please just turn up. We normally meet on the third Monday of the month from 9.30am but as this is Easter this month we will meet on 25th. You will need to provide your own tools, – gloves shears secateurs etc. and be responsible for your own safety

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

On our February outing we were all quite surprised to see big John joining us. It is well known in Wenvoe that John doesn’t come out until Spring has sprung. He said the early daffodils had tricked him. Some of the team can be seen cutting overgrowth off the old wall on Walston Road; the other members are clearing up the waste which filled our trailer. There will be very little cutting back of any hedges from March as birds will be nesting. The team will be assisting in any way it can leading up to the Jubilee celebrations in June.

The next meeting will be on Monday 14th March at 9.30am outside the Community Centre

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The team’s first outing of the year took place on the old narrow section of Walston Road adjacent to Grange Avenue. The gang set about cutting back the ivy growing on the wall to give pedestrians a better view of oncoming traffic. We must have looked a sorry bunch as Jenny, a nearby resident, came out with biscuits to cheer us up.

This road used to take all the Quarry traffic from Whitehall Quarry before the owners built a road down to the Tarrws, which is now an extension of Walston Road. The photograph is of two cottages lived in by the Crump and Watts families that were situated at the far end of Walston Road next to the old Whitehall quarry. When the quarry first started blasting the owner, Mrs Osmond, had to send some men to the Watts’s cottage to relay the slabs on the floor of the house which always dislodged during blasting. This happened regularly until the quarry workings moved further away from the cottage.

The Environment Team would like to thank the people who help to keep Wenvoe looking good by regularly collecting litter.

The Environment Team will meet again on 14th February at 9.30 at the same location on Walston Road. As always, we would be very happy to welcome anyone who would like to join us for a couple of hours.

VILLAGE ENVIRONMENT GROUP

November Activities

The team were summoned twice in November.

On November 1st the team put up the Tommy statue at the memorial.

On November 8th the team tackled the untidiness at the entrance to Clos Llanfair. During the morning, Brian tried to explain the workings of the Hadron Collider, but he had us going round in circles.

It was Gareth’s birthday and so Glenys had made a cake. Gareth himself had brought along some dubious French drink and after sampling a drop, the hedge looked like the spire of Chesterfield Church of St Mary’s!

The team will meet for the last time this year on December 13th, at the end of Walston Road by the footpath at 9.30am.

The Environment Team give up their free time to help in a small way to keep Wenvoe a nice place to live in. We would like to wish you all a Happy Christmas.