This year’s AGM will be held on Wednesday 21st March at St Matthews’ Church.
Doors open 7.30 and AGM at 8pm. Two talks, one by Guy Bentham Hill about keeping our period houses warm and another on the empty offices of Broadmead by John Frenkel.
Take this opportunity to meet your neighbours and find out what is happening in Kingsdown. There will be refreshments available.
Our annual AGM will be held at St Matthews’ Church on Wednesday 21st March. Doors open at 7.30 and the AGM, starts at 8pm with two talks of interest afterwards. The first will be given by the City’s Conservation officer, Guy Bentham-Hill, and will give us guidelines and suggestions on how to make our Kingsdown (and mainly period) properties more energy efficient. Just remember back to those very cold days at the beginning of the year! Then John Frenkel will give a short talk on what is happening down the hill from us in Broadmead and all those empty office buildings.
Afterwards there will be plenty of time to discuss all issues relating to these talks and anything else of Kingsdown interest with your neighbours over a glass of wine.
Everyone welcome, members new and old and anyone who wishes to join the KCG. This is a good chance to ask any new neighbours to come along and meet more of the Kingsdown community.
Unfortunately, I will be unable to make the AGM on 21st March but would very much like to encourage Kingsdown residents to upload photographs to the online photography site Flickr so that we can have a community album of photographs. Flickr is free and easy to join.KCG has a great site for collecting images, but all the photographs have to be sent to one person for uploading, so I have created a group under the name Kingsdown on Flickr and anyone can upload photographs to the group at this address:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/kingsdownconservationgroup/
Any photographs of Kingsdown which might be of interest to other residents are encouraged- from architectural interest, seasonal images to community events.
I would very much like this to be added to the agenda if possible,
Please don’t hesitate to contact me for more information / etc.
Penny Leaver Green
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pennyleavergreen.co.uk
What is Hope? An Exhibition and Dialogue on Interpretations of Hope.
Easter weekend at St Matthews’ Church. Thurs 5th – Sat 7th April 2012
St Matthews’ invites local artists to submit works of visual, sculptural, printed media or written art that proposes an answer to the question ‘what is hope?’ If you are interested please contact by email hopeexpressions2012@gmail.com by 17th March
At the Baptist Church in Broadmead, there will be yet another slideshow by Glyn Duggan.
7.30pm on Thursday 23rd February 2012
Don’t miss this chance to see some unexpected things we walk past everyday – without noticing!
£4 entrance. Light refreshments included – all proceeds to charity
Church entrance in Lower Union Street.
Santa paid his annual visit to the Kingsdown Carols, arriving exactly on time as usual. How does he manage to get here just when the music stops? And how does he somehow know the names of local children and have the right presents in the right sack?
It’s a mystery to us. If only he would take over the bus services…..
Click here to see the photos
Vicky Wright, Community Minister at St Matthew’s, writes:
The Ark Project was recently exploring how the Ark Building on Cotham Road South could be further developed by St Matthew’s and Bristol Christian Fellowship. After further consideration and discussion between our two churches we have decided to ‘pause’ the Ark Project to allow both congregations to focus on other projects that they are involved with.
We will review the vision and plans for the Ark Project in a year’s time. The Ark Building remains under the ownership of Bristol Christian Fellowship and all enquiries for community rental/use can be directed to their office: admin@bcfnet.com or 01454 613305
A huge thanks to all those who have been involved in the Ark Project and for those who took the time to fill in the community consultation form. We will let you know any future plans, if, and when, they happen. If you would like to discuss this any further do get in contact with Vicky Wright, St Matthew’s Community Minister:
vicky.wright@bristol.anglican.org 0117 944 1598
John Winstone, a former Kingsdown resident, has a quantity of Georgian joinery for use in repair and reinstatement of interiors in Kingsdown, from stripping out of Kingsdown houses in the 1970s and mostly provenanced to the particular property. Included are door and window architraves, panelled shutters, Georgian sashes, some with glass, internal panelled doors a long length of panelling to dado level, moulded and painted cornicing from Prospect House off Horfield Road, etc. Some items featured in the Kingsdown 250 exhibition. Further details on request of a specific item. It will be a question of taker collects; no takers for the lot please.
Contact: John Winstone, Court Farm, Vicarage Lane, Wookey, BA5 1JT
johnhwinstone@tiscali.co.uk 01749 671 055 Mobile – 01749-671055