NEWS
Jubilee Trees
17 new trees have been planted
in the village - in the Memorial Hall Car Park, on Sugar Hill and Old
Station Way - to commemorate the Queen's Siver Jubilee. These were provided
by the Sir George Martin Trust, an Addingham based charity.
New Wall
A new stone wall has been built along the front of the Cottages Garden
opposite Burnside Mill. This was built by BMDC with local stone and planted
with alpine plants by the Garden Friends.
Jubilee Flowers
The village flower beds in the Hen Pen and Cottages gardens will be coloured
red, white, and blue this Summer to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. A new
bed (for this year only) will be made on Sugar Hill with a special loyal
design.
The Addingham Garden Friends is a group of volunteers helping to enhance and maintain the village open spaces and public gardens, in conjunction with Bradford M.D.Council and Addingham Parish Council. The group has planning meetings on the first Wednesday of the month in the Old School (above the Library) at 10.00am and working parties on the second Wednesday of the month at 9.30am. and at other times as required. It enters the village in the Yorkshire in Bloom competition with great success - after a string of Silver Gilt (second grade) awards the village was awarded a top GOLD award, and placed first in category, in 2011 (see list of awards HERE).
Because of this success, Addingham was invited to represent Yorkshire in the national Britain in Bloom 2012 competition against the 'best of the best' similar sized villages from the other regions of the UK (from the Channel Isles to Scotland and Northern Ireland).
The Britain in Bloom competition is run by the Royal Horticultural Society and their judges will be visiting Addingham on 2nd August 2012 to judge the gardens and the whole village prior to the prize giving later in the year in Guernsey.
Top - Daffodils at the
Parish Church
Below Left - Crocuses
at the Primary School
Below - New planters
and cherry tree at Memorial Hall
Below right - Garden Friends planting
up container.
