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Friends of Bramcote Ridge - Meeting of 5 November 2001
24 people present. Apologies from Glyn Yeoman, Rodney and Barbara Dexter and Doreen Smith.
Before the AGM Geoff Smith talked about his horticultural work with mentally handicapped people at Bestwood Community Centre. With a class of 8 and...
There were 33 present.
Walter Grauberg, as chairman of the group, welcomed in particular those who had come in response to letters distributed to residents of Bramcote View and Wollaton living near the Ridge.
He briefly traced the history of the group from its formation in 1999, its aim to pro...
17 members present.
There was no formal meeting,but John Appleton spoke about the BBC Garden Bird Survey undertaken in January on one day for one hour. There were 40,000 replies, 90 species identified, of Which the starling was most common. The waxwing, kingfisher and over-wintering blackcap wer...
24 members were present. Apologies were received from Geoff. Smith and Alan Clark.
The speaker for the meeting was Margaret Cooper who talked about the historical background of Bramcote.
It was a Saxon village, mentioned in the Doomsday Book as having 4 lords in charge. The first chapel was b...
21 members present. Apologies from Linda and Phil Whitt.
Regretfully the advertised talk on hedgehogs did not take place, as the speaker from 'Hedgehog Care' did not wish to bring a live animal during the present Foot and Mouth crisis. Hopefully the talk will be given at another time.
A few no...
Slide show. 17 Friends and 4 visitors from the Wollaton Natural History Society were present to see slides shown by Ron Price from that society on 'Images from Nature '. Walter welcomed the visitors and introduced the speaker, who showed a large number of superb photos in close up of flowers, pla...
