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Our good friends at the 1st Hereford Scouts, based at Scouts Corner at the end of Park Street, have launched a fundraising appeal to replace the existing building with one more suited to today's requirements. Please give generously to this great organisation & future community asset.
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Lead by Sutton Walls Conservation Group - see below for booking
SWCG, who are leading the walk have asked that numbers are limited to 20, so you will need to book a place. Booking opens 21st June, please click here to contact EventBrite to book.
It took more than 200 cups of tea, 175 slices of cake and seven songs from the Hereford Fire Choir for Bartonsham’s local history group to achieve its jubilee ambition: to recreate a photograph taken 69 years earlier. On June 3 1953 ninety eight local residents gathered for a group photograph outside the parish Scout Hut when rain brought their street party to an end. This year on Friday June 3, just under 150 people turned up to recreate the picture. They included Judith Morgan from Whitecross and Jean Martin from Tupsley who had both featured on the original photo. “The whole episode became an historic event in itself,” declared Bill Laws, and £300 of donations were raised for the Government's Ukraine Appeal. Image thanks to Joe Nobile - Park Street resident and photographer, Joe stepped in at the 11th hour, when our original photographer called in sick. People who attended the event can request larger digital copies of the group photo, suitable for print. Email us at web@bartonshamhistory.org.uk with your name and the contact details you entered on your number for the photo. Visit our facebook page for more images of the occasion
Tuesday 12th April 7.30pm. The Barrels, St Owen Street
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On the 2nd of June 1953 the local community of Bartonsham celebrated the coronation of Queen Elizabeth with street parties, and posed for this group photo at Scout Corner. We know that some of the younger people in the picture, now grown up, are still here.
Sixty nine years later at the platinum anniversary this June, its possible there maybe more celebrations with community parties, and Bartonsham history group are hoping to to recreate this community group picture, with the current community. Do you remember it? Maybe you are a relative of someone in the picture, or a new family in the neighbourhood. Which ever, we would love you to be involved in recreating a new version of this group photo for this years anniversary. If you are interested please email us at: web@bartonshamhistory.org.uk, to give us an idea of numbers and people keen to get involved. Is anyone organising a street party? let us know. To keep up to date with possible options keep checking Bartonsham History on facebook and let us know your thoughts. Tuesday 1st february 7.30pm. The Barrels, St Owen Street
Tuesday 28th December 10.30 at the Moot Point (Scouts Corner)
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