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A return visit from Kier, a former landscape gardener, this time gardens in the West Country
Join us at HIGHNAM Community Centre for a 2 o’clock start on June 14th.
Monica Evans, the society’s heritage volunteers organiser, led several members in an exciting project at Berkeley Castle during the 2010-11 winter. While the castle was closed to the public they photographed many objects in the castle’s collection. The purpose was to create a digital ‘Icollection’ partly for security reasons. The volunteers coped with very cold conditions (remember that winter!). NADFAS House were also interested as this was an original form of heritage volunteering. The other members were Margaret Macnair, Anne Mogie, Julian Berrisford, Joan Bloore, Ray Davies, George Duff and Chris Manning. The photograph shows several members with the castle general manager Vicki Parr. A similar project is planned for Tewkesbury Abbey
70 members had a very successful tea party on July 21st to celebrate West Gloucestershire DFAS’s 20th birthday. 10 founder members were able to attend (that’s four of them cutting the cake!) We were very lucky with the weather as it started to spot with rain as everyone was leaving. Mary and Jeremy Barnes kindly hosted the event at Ashleworth Manor, and the West Mercia area chairman Sally Kitchen and her husband were guests. You can see further photographs by clicking on ‘gallery’ above
photographs courtesy of James Crockford
