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Apart from the Floating Pennywort incident, it's been a good year in the parks.
Chestnut Avenue is still with us after the wet summer despite worries a year ago.
We've had some excellent speakers at our walks and talks in the past year.
I thank all of them. We have introduced a change to the way we do the talks.
We tried it in January and it was very popular... Click here to read
the full article.
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Walks, Talks and other events in 2008 |
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| Thu 17 Apr |
Additional Talk
We have an additional talk at the Market House Festival, Kingston Market.
It will be a joint meeting with Friends of Richmond Park.
There will be various speakers including
Bushy Park manager, Ray Brodie, and Dr Nigel Reeve, the Royal Parks ecologist.
There will also be refreshments available. And a good chance to meet other friends of another park.
Market House Festival at Kingston Market, 6pm for 6.30.
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| Thu 24 Apr |
Thursday Talk - Bees and Flowers
A talk by Chris Deaves, Tutor at Twickenham and Thames Valley Bee Keepers Association.
St John Ambulance Hall at 8:00pm
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| Sat 26 Apr |
Saturday Walk - Friends and Little Friends
A walk around the Stockyard area of Bushy Park led by Hannah Pritchard, the park's
Community Engagement Officer. A chance to bring children into this area of the park for
an experience of pond dipping and other events where wellington boots might be very useful.
It will also be a chance to see the newly completed education centre there - if plans stay on course!
Meet at 11:00am at The Stockyard
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| Sun 11 May |
Chestnut Sunday
The annual parade will start at Teddington Gate at 12.30pm and will travel up Chestnut Avenue to
Diana Fountain. There will be events throughout the day and many stalls for all the family to enjoy.
Let's hope for better weather than 2007! It's always a great day out.
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| Thu 22 May |
Thursday Talk - The History of Teddington and its Environs
A talk by local historian and long-time resident, Paddy Ching.
St John Ambulance Hall at 8:00pm
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| Sat 7 Jun |
Saturday Walk - Bat Walk
Dr. Nigel Reeve, Community Ecologist for the Royal Parks.
Meet at Teddington gate at 20.30.
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| Sun 15 Jun |
The Friends Annual Summer Party
The Friends Annual Summer Party will again take place in ,
Hampton Court Road (with grateful thanks to The Royal Parks).
The evening will start at 7pm and will include
a glass of wine, food, exhibitions, walks and other events.
This event is for members only.
The Stockyard at 7pm.
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| Sat 28 Jun |
Saturday Walk - Hampton Meadow Lands
Pippa Hyde will lead a walk to the Hampton Meadow Lands.
Her walks are always fascinating.
We'll learn all about some of the wild flowers in the meadows.
Meet next to the bridge outside the garden of The Anglers Pub at Teddington Lock at 10.30.
NB slightly earlier time than usual.
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| Previous Events |
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| Fri 7 Mar |
Annual General Meeting & Cleve West talk
Chairman's AGM report - click here.
"Climate Change - How Gardeners can Cope" by Cleve West - a review will appear here soon.
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| Sat 16 Feb |
Saturday Walk - Mistletoe Walk
The Mistletoe walk - for many years led by Tyrrell Marris and again joined this year by Graham Dillamore is becoming one of the Friends annual favourites. Almost sixty of us met at the Lion Gate on a beautiful spring-like morning.
It may be tempting fate to say it, but for many years now the weather has been very good. Looking up into the trees to see the mistletoe with a bright blue sky behind it, makes it even more special. The early spring bulbs were out too - crocus, daffodil and snowdrops.
We started walking through the wilderness area... Click here to read
full article.
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| Thu 22 Nov |
Thursday Talk: Dragonflies - A Natural History
A talk by Nicholas Donnithorne.
There were over 50 members who turned out on a very chilly night to listen to a most entertaining
and informative talk. Nicholas showed many beautiful pictures of Dragonflies, many of which he had
taken especially for The Friends of Bushy and Home Parks talk.
Click here to view Nicholas's recommended booklist.
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Site last updated Sunday 13 April 2008
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Welcome to the Friends of Bushy and Home Park.
The FBHP is an association constituted in 1990 in response to the growing
need to help protect and conserve these historic parks in south-west
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Latest news ...
Linden Homes / Sandy Lane development - A battle won...
Linden Homes' planning application for 36 extra apartments and a fifth storey on five buildings
on the Sandy Lane site was unanimously rejected by Richmond Council's planning committee on the 13th March.
The committee, which heard from Ian Jones-Healey (chairman of the Friends of School House Lane Orchard),
David Harnden (chairman of the Sandy Lane Site Action Group) and
Pieter Morpurgo (chairman of the Friends of Bushy and Home Parks),
endorsed all of the planning officer's reasons for refusal.
... but war not yet over
The Planning Inspectorate Appeal Hearing is on 23 April at York House.
We encourage as many people to attend these meetings as possible.
More information is available at the Sandy Lane Site Action Group (slsag) website at
www.slsag.org.uk
Water Gardens
Work started on the renovation of the Water Gardens in February.
The work to restore the gardens to their former glory will take more than a year.
The expected completion date will be late spring 2009.
The foundations of the original grotto arches have been discovered.
It establishes that the pool is even bigger than was thought.
It dates back to 1695. The camera bought by the Friends is now in place
recording all the restoration work going on in the Water gardens.
The camera will stay there until all the work is complete, hopefully in late autumn.
Images will be available on our website.
Additional Talk - Thursday 17 April
We have an additional talk at the Market House Festival, Kingston Market.
It will be a joint meeting with Friends of Richmond Park.
There will be various speakers including
Bushy Park manager, Ray Brodie, and Dr Nigel Reeve, the Royal Parks ecologist.
There will also be refreshments available. It will be a good chance to meet Friends from another park.
Market House Festival at Kingston Market, 6pm for 6.30.
Welcome Centre
Work started on 18th February on the Welcome Centre in the Woodland Gardens.
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Volunteer Appeal: Reporter/Photographer to cover FBHP Walks and Talks
The FBHP runs a programme of guided walks and speaker events throughout the year - approximately one per month. We are keen to record these very interesting and informative events for the future and for publication in our newsletter, email news and on the website. We are therefore looking for one or two volunteer reporters who could attent these events and write them up along with a few photographs. If you're enthusiastic about the Parks, can write well and can spare a couple of hours each month, we'd love to hear from you.
Please contact the FBHP chairman, Pieter Morpurgo on chairman@bushy.org.uk for further information
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Free Email News service
The FBHP invites you to register now you for the FREE FBHP Email News service
to receive regular updates about events and activities happening in the parks
and matters affecting the parks.
To subscribe simply click here. It takes just
a few moments and you can unsubscribe at any time.
Important note: We will never pass your email address onto anyone else.
We will never send you unsolicited advertising emails (“spam”).
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Comments/suggestions
are always welcome.
We recently embarked on an improvement project for the FBHP website. Comments, suggestions and the like
are very welcome indeed. Please keep an eye on the site over the coming weeks as we share sneak previews.
Please email Mark Buckley with your ideas.
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