You can now watch a short film made by former Kingsdown residents Carmel King and Lucia Ashmore – see it online, or download it, at www.vimeo.com/5651373
And …. it’s being shown at Homegrown itself tomorrow (Saturday)
Have a look at the link over on the right or click here for more details of this Saturday’s events.
The Heart Institute
The official opening will be on the 12th October. The Institute is nominated for three better Health Care Awards – for the building – for its internal design and for its art work.
Alfred Hill
Apart from the installation of three new lighting columns, this work is complete.
Woodland walk
The planting scheme, which will include wild flower seeds, will be carried out in the next few weeks. There will be plants on the earth banks at the bottom of Alfred Hill. KCG has asked UHB to tidy the entrance at Marlborough Hill car park.
Bedford Hill steps
Temporary timber treads will replace the steps. UHB wants to divert the right of way lower down the hill when the new Terrell Street wards are complete in 2013.
Residents’ Parking Scheme – still nothing new to report.
Lamp posts
Because the Lighting Department won’t answer Kingsdown Conservation Group emails, it has asked Councillor Alex Woodman to support its proposals to review lamp post design in Conservation Areas.
9, Kingsdown Parade
The Planners support KCG’s request to make the developer finish the street frontage of the ground floor and to comply with the conditions of his planning permission.
The Boiler House Southwell Street
Well done UHB for the boiler house (No. 40) improvements. But, what about the scruffy appearance of the Southwell Street, which lets No. 40 down? UHB says that it will ask Western Power Developments to remedy the scars in Southwell Street caused when they installed the high voltage electrical infrastructure.
KCG has asked UHB to replace the tatty cross bar and chain, which also let No. 40 down. KCG has asked UHB to install the bollard system in Southwell Street that it has installed in Cottage Place. The barrier crowds large numbers of pedestrians and cyclists close to the car park entrance, which is dangerous because drivers often drive out too quickly.
Radio-pharmacy
UHB still waits for the Planning Department’s response to its application to extend its temporary planning permission.
King David Hotel is landmark building. The Sea Horse is an unlisted building of merit. They both need serious external maintenance. KCG asked UHB to clean and repair them.
University Biological Sciences and Mathematics buildings
The University has not yet decided to move to the next stage of the construction of these buildings. The University must complete a construction contract before it can demolish the standing buildings.
Hawthorns
The University has postponed the redevelopment of the Hawthorns and all subsequent phases of its Masterplan. The University maintains its aspiration to redevelop the Drama Department but this too is postponed.
Public Art
On the 5th October, as part of its commitment to public art the University will unveil a sculpture by Jeppe Hein in Royal Fort House gardens.
Signs signs signs
KCG asks the Bristol University and UHB to declutter and to rationalise their signage. There are eight separate signs at the bottom of Marlborough Hill. There are 11 at the Royal Fort entrance. Can you read and remember them all, at the same time? It would be nice to see the end of “sign writer’s archaic” language.
Clarence Place
The Planning Department has supported KCG’s request to Somerfield not to use Clarence Place as a service area. The unauthorised street advertising is removed and the delivery trolleys are now (mainly) inside the shop.
Graffiti removal
Notify Waste Services & Street Scene Department by telephone as soon as a graffiti attack happens – tel. 922 2100. Ask for a reference number for your call. Electronic requests for the Bristol Clean and Green Team to remove graffiti can be down loaded from the Council website at of from the KCG website at www.kingsdown.org.uk. Nigel Tasker at Alfred Harris keeps paper graffiti application forms and freepost envelopes.
A reminder that on Saturday 26th September the third Kingsdown Homegrown will take place, in and around St Matthew’s Church.
This weekend should be a busy time as there are plenty of competitions to excite the old and young; from the traditional gardening and cookery catagories to the ‘Wish You Were Here’ postcard competition.
We also hope to see a lot more people, especially children, joining in the Fancy Dress Parade, with our MP Stephen Williams giving out badges and treats to all entrants.
Tickets for the Evening Party and Raffle tickets should be on sale by the weekend. If you need tickets please contact ruthrimmer@yahoo.co.uk; jenhb@blueyonder.co.uk; insideout73@blueyonder.co.uk.
As previously agreed, Beck Marsh from the Alcohol Service has been in touch again (thanks for remembering, Beck), as follows:
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Dear all
During the planning process for the Alcohol Service’s relocation to to Colston Fort, it was agreed that we would continue to meet with local residents on a regular basis. It is hoped that six-monthly meetings will enable issues to be discussed and any problems to be addressed at an early stage. We would, of course, welcome communication at any time.
The first of these meetings is scheduled for Wednesday October 21st, from 6-8pm, on the ground floor of Colston Fort. Please pass on this information to anyone who might be interested in coming along.
I would be grateful if you could confirm your attendance at this meeting, and suggest any items for the agenda, to me by Wednesday 14th October.
The Colston Fort address is:
Bristol Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service
1 Colston Fort
Montague Place
Kingsdown
Bristol
BS6 5UB
Looking forward to seeing you in October,
Kind regards
Beck Marsh
email address here
Note: There’s a much nicer-looking version of this info in a Word document here
This year’s fun event will again be held in and around St Matthew’s Church and we hope it will be an even better mix of stalls, competitions, games, music, children’s entertainment and delicious things to eat.
Very much In the Pink, we look forward to The Ambling Band, accompanied this time by their French counterparts Zebaliz, who will loudly start off the day in front of the Fancy Dress Parade at 1pm. For the Fancy Dress Parade meet as usual at the junction of Clevedon Terrace and St Matthews Road in your very best ‘Garden Gear’ whether it is bees or butterflies or flowers or compost bags! Come young and old and join in the Parade.
Sideshows and Games As well as our usual Human Fruit Machine and Whack-the-Rat, we would like to feature more and various games and competitions. If anyone has an idea or would like to organise or help run a stall, let us know. Or maybe you or your family are sporty or competitive? (just a little bit? ) Have you tried a three legged race recently or crazy bike riding? Could we get a street by street tug of war organised? We will need competitors and supervisers for the races.
Stalls and Stallholders We continue to wish to support local ‘homegrown’ talent and businesses as well as encouraging local residents to grow and show and their own produce. If you have a small local business and wish to use the day as a showcase for your work, or support the community, please contact Helen on 9422922. As a sample, these will include delicious tasting delights as the Fruit Kebab Stall; Bishopston Sausage BBQ; The best of Chocolate; Our Very Local Cider Pressing Company (please bring along your spare apples and watch them being pressed); let your children play in the Messy Church tent; find out more about wildlife gardening or relax and have your portrait drawn while listening to the music.
Calling all local musicians. Share your music with us on the day. Contact Ruth on 9247098
De-clutter Your Home with another opportunity for selling all that bric-a-brac. Spaces available at £10 a pitch. So get out a table and sort out all those things you just don’t need!!!!!
We would also like plenty of quality books for our Bookstall – especially those your neighbours would also like to read. So sort out the bookshelves and make yet more room.
And be ready to divide and pot up your favourite garden plants or bring on extra seedlings to share with others for the Plantstall
The Very Posh Teas will again be set up for you to relax and indulge with delicious tea and cake. All offers of help on the day or offers of cakes to sell will be warmly welcomed.
Details on where to leave your donations will be posted on the noticeboards nearer the day. Ffi also contact Helen 9422922
We have a fabulous DVD of last year’s Kingsdown Homegrown, made by Lucia Ashmore and Carmel King. We will be showing it inside the Hall this year as well as other locally made short films.
We hope to put together a Programme and Raffle Ticket to sell before and on the day itself. We are therefore looking for prizes for both the raffle and for the various competitions. If you are able to offer an exciting prize, or wish to sponsor the programme costs, or advertise, or help with the graphic work, please contact below
Further details for all these events will be put up at the beginning of September in the Noticeboards (Clevedon Terrace/ opposite Kingsdown Wine Vaults and the end Fremantle Road/ Kingsdown Parade) and on the website www.kingsdown.org.uk or contact Helen on 9422922
Party in the Evening 7.30 – 10.30pm
We have a locally sourced 4-piece band, EARTH LINGS ready to provide us with exceedingly danceable tunes from a broad selection of world music. Expect a very jolly evening which will get old and young dancing; with our usual fantastic spread of food and drinks. Tickets will be on sale mid September from the Church Office.
The Art Show
Along with a display of old postcards of Cotham and Kingsdown we would like to have a display of new ‘Kingsdown’ postcards. Approx 5 x 7 inches in size in whatever medium – photograph; pen and ink drawing; computer generated. The subject is ‘Kingdown : Wish you were Here’. So it could be it a street scene or it’s people or its events. Be inspired.
Upstairs In the Church
Decorate part of St Matt’s with flowers, feathers and a florish!! Local groups are invited to create an image of your favourite kind of garden, in whatever style. Ffi. phone 9441598 with your group’s name and contact number and reserve your place.
This year we will be supporting a charity in Sri Lanka – Navajeevana which means new life. They offer a new beginning to people who have been physically or mentally handicapped. Just at the moment they are working hard to support adults and children who have been affected by recent conflict, losing anything from physical limbs to family members. Our neighbour Hilary Green from Fremantle Road has recently come back from spending 6 months there, helping them to set up a showroom and develop the craft production of their disabled people. There will be a stall at the fair offering some of their beautiful products.
Gardening
It’s been a wet year again, but if your seedlings survived
the slugs and snails they should have grown well.
So this year we have:-
The One That Got Away! Not necessarily the
heaviest but the most Unusually Large or Long……
Basket of Mixed Homegrown Fruit and
Vegetables. Variety and presentation are important
Six of the Best. 6 of anything homegrown but all
perfect and identical.
A Show-Stopping Flower Display. Big, Bold and
Beautiful. You will need to bring your own container.
The Sunflowers. Will this year be record breaking?
Not just the tallest this time but also the biggest head.
Cookery
It’s good to use up surplus produce, especially if
you’ve grown it yourself so whether it’s apples or
courgettes or grapes, share your successes with
everyone by entering:-
Too Much Is a Good Thing The best use of surplus
fruit or veg. in cake or pie or whatever. Please state how
much in weight of surplus fruit etc went into the making.
The Best Victoria Sponge We need only to say
that the tallest is not necessarily the best.
Homegrown Jam No bought fruit please
Homegrown Chutney or Relish Hot and spicey
or something with a difference.
A Lovely Loaf. Plain and Simple or Fancy and Indulgent.
Best Ever Celebration Cake. It has to taste good
but it also has to look amazing and eye catching.
Please could entrants please specify if their cake could be
sold in The Very Posh Teas towards the end of the day.
Children’s
Last year’s entries were SO good and SO unbelievably creative
(the CD and DVD shows some of them) that every entry should
have a prize. As this year is the 40th anniversary of the Moon Walk,
we thought this should be the theme.
The Minature Garden A Moon garden or
Futuristic Garden. No bigger than the size of a
baking or seed tray please
The Edible Monster from Mars can be
Fierce-some, or can also be yucky or yummy
Five Fairy Fancy Cakes
The Scrap Monster from Outer Space
who just so happens to have been recycled junk.
A Tussie Mussie which is a very small posy of
garden flowers and herbs which look and smell sweet
We note from Cllr Alex Woodman’s email newsletter that there will be a “drop-in surgery” to meet with our new local community police officer (beat manager) in Kingsdown, Jen Appleford, on Tuesday evening 18 August at St Matthew’s Church Hall from 6.30 to 8pm.
Saturday 8th August 3 – 7pm Free
This Fluxus performance piece by Alison Knowles takes place at Cube Cinema, Dove Street South. A salad is artistically prepared and served to the audience for free. All local allotment holders or back garden growers or urban foragers are called upon to join efforts and celebrate a summer of growing and tasting local food.
Please bring your donations of salad making materials from 2pm onwards. Performance and salad serving will take place at 6pm with a BBQ afterwards. All are welcome bring to food to share but no problem if you don’t.
This is part of the Free Cube Summer FluxFest which includes ecological talks and films for free. Visit the Cube web site for further details or contact ale@cubecinema.com