beautiful and diverse gardens to the public for charity on Sunday 27th June
from 15pm.
plants and trees some have livestock, others have wonderful views of the River
Great Ouse and many have a wide variety of interesting features including
ponds, gazebos and bridges. Plants will also be available for sale in some of the
gardens which will enable visitors to take home a living souvenir of the day.
from the afternoon will
be St Peter's Church restoration work is needed on the tower, Harrold Youth Club
which caters for 1216 year olds and the East Anglian Air Ambulance, a very
worthwhile charity which has already been called into service in the village several
times in the past year.
programme - Adults £3, Concessions £2
and accompanying Children free. Each
programme will contain details of every
garden and a trail map for visitors to follow.
These will be on sale at the Butter Market at
the Green on the day.
available at both St Peter's Church and the
open to the public for many decades, very
few local people have discovered them!
the centre of town and formerly hidden from
view by a big wooden gate.
gate tempts one to come and have a walk
around these two peaceful gardens. Each
one is different, one being a walled flower
garden with planting introduced to this
country before 1800 and the other
maintained in the style of a Victorian kitchen
vegetables, fruit, flowers, herbs and a bed of
medicinal plants, because this garden once
belonged to an eighteenth century
apothecary. In it is a small unique building.
during World War II and there is an
Anderson Shelter too!
are? Find them behind the Cowper and
Newton Museum on the Market Place, Olney,
open on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th
June from 10.30 am to 4.30pm for the
(If you wish to visit the Museum, with its
many new re-displays, there will be an
additional charge.)
enjoy refreshments, purchase plants and
have a chat with the gardeners.
Gardens and Charles Knight, tenant of the
Summer House Garden.
Club in Olney on the 9th April 2010. Mr Derek Rogers, a Life Member, proposed the toast to the Club.
Secretary, Dennis Adams, after 48 years in the post.
The Chairman, Frank Lewis, paid tribute to his long
service and read out a letter from Lord Denham
expressing similar sentiments. Mr Jim Perkins,
another life member, presented Dennis with a
woodcarving of a perch by Frank Chandler, himself a
lifelong angler and keen member of the Fishing Club
during his lifetime. Mrs Adams was presented with
an orchid by Mrs L Finn-Kelcey the Club President.
Hospice.
attended.
the Weston Underwood Fishing Club
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