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‘For and about the people of Berkeley’ No. 272 June 2018

www.theberkeleyflyer.co.uk

SKYLARKS WANTED!

: New singers, for the Skylarks Community Choir - No audition - No previous musical experience required.

New singers nights will be held on Tuesday 5th June and Tuesday 12th June.

Come and try us out at no cost. Berkeley Town Hall. 7.15 -9.15pm.

We are famous for our Tea and Cake break!

CONCERT OF POPULAR MUSIC

Our next public performance will be on Tuesday 3rd July. 7.30pm, The Barn, Cattle Country.

Tickets 3.50 includes, coffee tea & cake

Tickets available from Berkeley Pharmacy or on the door.

Traditional Agricultural Show in the Heart of Gloucestershire

Berkeley Show is an annual celebration of all that is great in the

Berkeley Vale and the surrounding countryside between the

Cotswold escarpment and the River Severn. After last year’s

success we decided to keep the mid-summer date of Sunday

24th June 2018. The format of our show reflects tradition but

with an injection of 21st century appeal to encourage the next

generation with young families to attend.

This year - our 115th show - focusses on historical, traditional

values and highlights the progression of agriculture through the

years with displays of machinery from vintage tractors through

to the latest farming technology. In the Livestock show ring,

farmers showcase their highest quality animals and this always

attracts a crowd and offers the public a chance to learn all about

each breed and its history, with the prize winners being paraded

in the afternoon as part of the Main Ring entertainment. The

horse show area has competitions in dressage, show jumping

and Gymkhana all of which is to a very high standard and offers

great spectator viewing.

And for our four-legged friends we are bringing you a bigger and

better dog show with a huge variety of classes to enter on the

day including a fun obstacle clear round and enough rosettes

and prizes for dogs of all shapes and sizes!

The Horticultural and Handicraft section gives showgoers an

opportunity to enter a variety of competitions including flower

arranging, baking and homemade crafts. The younger

generation can also get involved in the children’s section giving

them the chance to demonstrate their skills. For 2018 we have

also launched an Inter-Schools competition where each School

designs and builds a decorated wheel barrow. And back by

popular demand, the 'Great Berkeley Bake Off' will be returning

for 2018!

We continue to build on last year’s success with more activities

and stands joining the village green area. There will be craft

stalls, catering stands selling local delicacies and a farmers

market offering the finest produce along with free children's

activities such as 'Junk Fish' to keep your children entertained

whilst you soak up the show atmosphere. The Main Ring

entertainment for 2018 include the unmissable ‘Welsh Axeman’

and ‘The horse two fence challenge’.

Berkeley show is an affordable, fun and educational day out for

all the family. Why not enter something you have made in the

kitchen, grown in the garden or created from the craft box.

There’s a range of new and old competitions so go to our

website, look on the competitions page and give it a go! For the

fun dog show and obstacle course you enter on the day. The

schedules are available to download from the website;

www.berkeleyshow.co.uk

20% discount on advanced ticket sales.

Gates open to the public at 9am - Main ring

entertainment starts at 10.30am

115th Berkeley Show

June 2018 THE BERKELEY FLYER [email protected]

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JUNE IN THE GARDEN

June is the start of the Summer with long days and hopefully warm sunny hours. Things are starting to grow at a rapid rate and the never ending jobs of mowing the lawn and constant weeding the beds and borders begins, but we look forward to a kaleidoscope of colour that we get from flowers and shrubs in the coming months.

It is pretty safe to assume the frosts are behind us so now is the time to plant out most things. Hanging baskets can be put in position, summer bedding (Zinnia, Petunia, Lobelia) can be planted to give colour throughout the next few months. In the vegetable garden Courgettes, Pumpkins, Sweet Corn, French and Runner Beans can be put out. Biennial seed can be sown of Sweet William, Honesty, Wallflowers and Foxglove for next year. There is also the harvesting of vegetables that you have sown earlier such as early Potatoes, Lettuce, Radish and the first of the Broad Beans. Shading of the glasshouse is a good idea – this will keep it cool and prevent scorch on any of the seedlings and cuttings you may have in there.

It is time to take softwood cuttings from your favourite shrub or a plant that holds precious memories or it may just be growing older and you would like to grow on a new one. Select a good healthy stem with no flowers, extra care must be taken to ensure they do not lose too much water through their surface leaf area. Trim the cutting down to 10-15cm (4-6in) with the cut just

below a leaf node. Carefully remove the bottom leaves. Dust the base with rooting powder and gently push the cutting into a pot of compost, water well without wetting the leaves. Cover the pot with a plastic bag, label and place the pot out of direct sunlight. It will take about four to six weeks to root. Some of the shrubs that can be propagated this way are Philadelphus, Deutzia, Spirea, Hebe, Weigelia, Rosemary and Lavender.

Plants grown permanently in containers will need special care and re-potting. Potting on and proper feeding regimes are essential to keep plants healthy and flourishing. Most healthy container garden plants eventually outgrow their pots and you may recognise this when this should be done. The leaves may turn yellow, growth will slow down and it becomes difficult to water as there is little if any soil left with only roots in the pot. The best time to re-pot most plants is when they are actively growing in the Spring or Summer. The best growing medium for permanent plants in pots is John Innes no 3 which has coarse grit and loam soil for drainage and to enable the roots to anchor into it. A plant ready for re-potting should slide out of the pot in one piece. Trim off the bottom of the root ball and make some short cuts up the side. This will promote good nutrient absorption and loosen up the root ball before replanting. The new pot should be about a third larger than the original. After re-potting give the plant a good watering and this should then last for another two years. Every other year between re-potting you could top dress the plants. Tip the pot on its

side and with your fingers or a hand fork gently tease among the roots and remove the top layer of soil and replace it with John Innes no 3 compost and then water well.

During the Summer months don’t forget to take photographs of the garden as it emerges from late Spring into full blown Summer glory. This will give you a record of beds and borders so that any changes you want to make you can see at a glance later where plants are. Also if you visit other gardens and bring back ideas for your own garden – take photos. This will give you a project for the winter months and you will have lots of records to consider for a new plan and ideas for your own garden.

That’s it for this month – Happy Gardening

Ann Legg

Berkeley Gardening

Club

Berkeley Gardening

Club is holding its

ANNUAL PLANT SALE

on Saturday 9th June outside the old

NatWest Bank from 10.00am. Please

come along for a bargain to top up

your own garden. The Club is also in

charge of the Horticultural Section at

Berkeley Show on Sunday 24th June.

Schedules are available on the Show

Website"




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SUMMER FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE Eyes down for a full house on Saturday 30th June when the ever-popular Berkeley Summer Festival returns under the auspices of the Festival Organising Committee and Berkeley Community Trust. We’re now committed to using the Berkeley Arms Hotel Garden which has proved so suitable in the last few years, offering safe and pleasant surroundings for adults and children, young and old, and with all the facilities of the Hotel on hand.

This year looks like being bigger and better than ever featuring a much wider range of food stalls (including Asian and last year’s exciting Gourmet Burgers) more craft and other attractions and music from the Cotswold Male Voice Choir who’ll be leaning hard into a gale of old favourites, so you can join in the chorus of shanty songs and familiar show stoppers.

For the first time we’re planning an open mic event in the middle of the afternoon, themed as Berkeley’s Got Talent. Open to all comers, you’ll get a chance to show off your special musical, comedy or other skills (get practising with the juggling) and be in the running for a special prize, based on the audience vote. To enter, simply go to our Facebook Page and leave contact details at Berkeley Town Festivals.

Why not have a look at the Page just to catch up with what’s on. As usual, the Festival will start at 1.00 and run through till around 5.00, giving you plenty of time to drift in and enjoy it all.

The 5k run, which started two years ago alongside the Festival, is now a significant event in the local athletic calendar, suitable for all comers and this year there’s also a 10k for the more serious amongst you. All competitors in this year’s Castle Dash will receive a commemorative medal and winners get unique awards. Entries are limited so get in there fast. To register go to www.newberkeleyharriers.com which also has full details of the event. This year the Castle Dash course runs through the grounds of historic Berkeley Castle, with special thanks to the Berkeley Family and the New Berkeley Harriers who will be organising the event.

So, all we need now is you, the great people of Berkeley and District to turn out in your droves to make it a great day. See you there, from 1.00 on Saturday 30th June or earlier if you want to witness the spectacular start and finish of the two Runs.

We always need extra pairs of hands to help on the day so if you have an afternoon to spare to help keep this community inspired event running, please get in touch with Mike Studden on 01453 511131.

***We have had a technical hitch with the email address we printed in last month’s flyer so if you have sent us an email can we please ask you to send it again to the new email address ***

As we had so much support from local businesses and households last year with our NightRider (light up window displays)

event we thought we would do it again but without the need for it to be dark to be seen. So, this year we will be doing a window display trail in the two weeks prior to the 14th July. We are asking all local businesses and households to decorate your windows or front gardens with a BSQ2BSQ theme. Maps will be available for the public to purchase for £5 each from

various places in the Town. If you would like to support us by decorating your property please contact us so we can include you on the map by June 14th

Email [email protected] Or call Justine on 01453 511021 - Many thanks BSQ2BSQ team.




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FOOD BANK

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Does Berkeley Community Library need you?

Volunteers/Gloucestershire Community Libraries week

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th June 2018

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Berkeley Community Library, located next to Berkeley Primary School, is open Tuesday and Friday 10.30 – 16.30 and Saturday 09.30 – 12.30 during which times as well as library facilities and services, there are several groups, including a Walking Group, Poetry Circle, Crochet club and Computer Help group that meet at the library. Outside library open hours the building is also used hired for use for a Gardening club, Craft Club, Art Group and for classes for Yoga and Pole Exercise.

So what can the library offer you? As a member you have not just the loan of its own wide selection of books but also access to all the books in Gloucestershire Libraries.

In addition you may not be aware that there are computers for public use, (free to use with Library Membership) that offer free access to online subscription Family Research Databases (Ancestry and Find My Past)

We have a friendly bunch of volunteers, who run the daily activities of the library and enjoy a chat. We would love to do even more and would be delighted to hear from people willing to volunteer their services and skills to run specific events or clubs: children’s activities, story-telling, a film club, a games or chess club, perhaps some fundraising activities like race nights etc.

Do you have the time and enthusiasm to join us and keep our Community Library lively and moving forward?

Perhaps you are doing your Duke of Edinburgh award and could use your skills with us within that great scheme?

In the 2018 volunteer week it would be great to recruit some new faces to help increase our profile and activities. Please come and see us to have a chat, or bring your ideas. We would love to see you. (Free coffee and cake available during Volunteers week only)

Berkeley Parochial Trust

The Berkeley Parochial Trust exists to offer help to people in need

who live within the five Berkeley Area Parishes: Berkeley;

Alkington; Hamfallow, Hinton and Ham. The Trustees of the Charity

are representatives from these Parishes and can be contacted

through their councils. The Trust was originally founded in the 19th

century as The Church Poor charity .Over time it has evolved and

help does not depend on any particular religious ties.

The Trustees meet four times a year to decide upon applications,

although it is possible for more urgent cases to be helped between

meetings.

Examples of help awarded previously, have included: contributions

towards heating/utility costs for the seriously ill; carpets or other

essential household items bought for families where income is too

low to be able to afford them; help with school uniform/shoes; the

purchase of a disability aid that could not be acquired by other

means.

If you, or someone you know is in financial difficulties or is ill and in

need of some financial help please contact our clerk or a council

representative trustee. We will need to know name, address and

phone number, brief details of the circumstances, and exactly what

financial award is needed and for what purpose. Proof of the use of

any award is always required.

All applications are handled with discretion, without judgement, and

are entirely confidential.

Contact Details:

Clerk to the Berkeley Parochial Trust

Mrs S Watson.

Phone 01453 542208

Email [email protected]




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INSPIRED TO ASPIRE

Inspiration provides vision with a

starting point. This is ours:

“If children are happy, they will

achieve!

Here at Berkeley Primary School, our aim is to create an

environment which nurtures the children to become the

very best they were made to be. We create an atmosphere

conducive for all our children to explore and discover the

awe and majesty of this world we are all privileged to live

in.

Those who were at the school on the evening of 21st May

will have seen some amazing pieces of art created by the

children, professionally framed and mounted for our Art

Exhibition. Proud parents perused and pondered the

colourful creations that were also available to purchase.

We would like to thank the PTA for providing the

refreshments which added to an extremely convivial

evening.

At the time of printing, we do not know the winning design

of our Wood Sculpture Competition for our school

courtyard, but we are all very excited. Children were invited

to provide an imaginative design for a large wooden stump.

The remit was quite broad, but could have incorporated

Berkeley Castle or have been completely from their

imaginations. The winning design will be carved by a

professional wood artist, who will be working with the

school.

The school environment is a place to inspire. Suspended

above the heads of the children, colourful paper lanterns

adorn the Key Stage 2 corridor. While visitors to the Key

Stage 1 building are greeted with bright multicoloured

bunting. Along the corridors the children’s work is displayed

and celebrated. The willow dens on the field have now

been trimmed ready to house more creative spaces for the

little ones’ imaginations.

It is not just the external environment which creates calm,

but also the internal world of the child.

There was an increased sense of calm permeating the

school during our Mindfulness Day on Friday 11th May. All

the children were invited to come to school wearing

comfortable clothing, such as pyjamas, joggers or

leisurewear. (That would be sufficient for most people to

relax.) However, a programme of activities provided the

children with a range of opportunities to experience yoga,

meditation, art and gardening. The day provided a chance

to trial some pet therapy with a beautiful Cocker Spaniel,

Maddie. We thank Jenny Elliott for introducing Maddie to

the school.

We are a nation of dog-lovers, and at Berkeley we are no

different. Thousands of dogs every year need loving

homes. We are grateful to Charlotte Paddock from the

Dogs Trust, a national charity, which cares for and

rehomes abandoned pets, for kindly sharing the work of the

charity, and how to be ‘dog safe’ with our younger children.

On Saturday, 16th June, there will be an opportunity to

clear out the clutter and bring along some of your unwanted

items to a Car Boot Sale at the school organised by the

PTA. You might even bag a bargain while you are there! To

book your pitch, contact [email protected] or

visit our main office.( £7 per car, £10 per van, £15

independent traders)

Finally, for more information and to keep up-to-date, please

visit our school website http://www.berkeleyprimary.org.uk

Berkeley Educational

Swimming Trust (BEST)

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Runner Up - Angela BarnesNo. 49 - £15.00

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Marybrook Medical Centre

News

From the patient participation group

There have been some major staff changes at Marybrook Medical Centre as you know but thankfully, key staff are now in place and everything should start to settle down. I know that Chrisie the practice manager would want me to thank you for your perseverance. The staff will be coming along to the Berkeley Festival on June 30th where at 3 O’clock Dr Walshe will take great delight in introducing them to the community so if you have not met the new staff by then it will be a wonderful opportunity to find out all about them. Many of you will have noticed that the appointment system has changed and if you call you will be asked if you require a ROUTINE appointment or an URGENT appointment. If you require an urgent appointment then a DOCTOR will call you back to discuss your issue and make an appointment for you as required (This could be as soon as within an hour if necessary). Clearly as a result of doctors spending time on the phone with patients, routine appointments will be impacted and if you have had occasion to book an appointment you will have noticed longer waiting times than you have previously been used to. The lesson here is that if you do need routine appointments please book them a bit further ahead, clear in the knowledge that when you need an urgent one, your need will be treated urgently. I understand that this is the modern system being widely used by top practices but it may take a little getting used to here in Berkeley. As part of the new approach, the practice would like to acquire some testing equipment not normally provided by the NHS at practise level. This is to enable more tests to be carried out here in Berkeley, avoiding the hassle and delay associated with going to Gloucester. Berkeley Community Trust have agreed that this equipment can be acquired through them so that it will always belong to the patients and the Patient Participation Group will explain more about this and how you or any organisations you might be associated with can help, once the full list of items is completed.

Finally, all 3 new practitioners are now in place. Please note that Advanced Nurse Practitioners come with Masters Degrees and are highly experienced people, both Wendy and Katie are lovely. Please note also that both doctors will now be working full time, previously there was only one full time doctor. We understand that the new set up will deliver 50 additional appointments per week and they will move from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. To further reduce hassle for everyone your prescriptions will last for up to 56 days rather than 28 days, thus minimising repeats. If you normally leave your request for repeat prescriptions on the surgery answering machine though, you should be aware that it is evidently not good practise to operate in this way and a way round this is currently being considered. We have told the partners that the changes will take some getting used to and they assure us that their ultimate goal is to create a step change in the service they give to us.




Our local neighbourhood panel met with us recently and have asked your local

officers to concentrate on speeding in the area over the summer period along with

keeping any nuisance behaviour at the current low levels.

We continue to be hit in Berkeley and the surrounding area with a number of

frequent scrap metal dealers who work for an organised crime group based in the

midlands. The visitors are typically of eastern European origin and will come on to

driveways or enter gardens without permission and help themselves to items which

will be of scrap metal value. The local community have assisted us with index

plates which is most useful and we have recently arrested a few, however, do

continue to report such sightings on 101.

Covering the period 22nd April to the 22nd May 2018 – Berkeley remains all but

crime free with just the one arrest for criminal damage to a door and window in two

properties on the High Street. On the 5th May a male guest from a visiting wedding

party returned to a rented property very intoxicated with a number of other guests

and caused a disturbance in the street which ended in the damage being caused.

Have you considered joining our new messaging service called ‘Community Alerts’

which allows you to receive information via email direct from Gloucestershire

Constabulary? Typically you might receive real time information on crimes & also

appealing for information along with community information specific to the local

Frampton area. It’s a free service and you can pick what information you want to

be informed about. If you want to join the service visit the Gloucestershire

Constabulary website or visit www.yourcommunityalerts.co.uk where you will be

able to sign up.

You can contact your local officers direct by the following ways.

[email protected]

07811292900 (not for incident reporting).

[email protected]

07813349225 (not for incident reporting).

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Berkeley Forum The Flyer reserves the right to edit and abridge letters submitted for publication. Anonymous

letters will not be published, but we will withhold your name if requested

Berkeley Town Council is keen to hear of

your memories of the field that used to be

known as Lynch Ground. We would also

like to see any pictures you have of it too.

Some people have already shared some

stories for instance the fairground that used

to come there, the floods, the old Elm tree

and the pond. Do you remember them ? If

you do please let us know so we can use

your memories to tell the history of the

field before it became Sarah’s Field.

We will be producing an information board

for the site to provide interest to visitors so

we would love to hear about and share

your memories”

Contact the council by email

[email protected], by phone 01453

511964 or by post to the Town Hall, Salter

Street, Berkeley, Glos. GL 13 9RR

Thanks

Debbie Spiers

Town Clerk

Dear Editor

Berkeley Town FC are looking for a club

secretary to look after the 1st & 2nd team

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Dear Editor,

The last month has been very much one of

paddling away furiously under the surface

while on the surface all looks calm.

The work on the B4066 appears to be

going well and the diversions are coping. It

will certainly be good to drive along a nice

smooth road all the way from the A38 into

Berkeley. It will however be nicer still for

the residents of Mobley and Berkeley

Heath to have a quieter life without

potholes for the HGVs to bang and rattle

through and shake their houses in the

night. Thanks to Brian Tipper for his

support on this. The next challenge is for a

proper upgrade to Marybrook Street and

Station Road and after that a proper fix for

Alkington lane.

You will no doubt have read about the

houses on the hospital site which were

built too high. I understand the developers

were specifically advised of the height

limit on their original application but chose

to carry on regardless. Like everyone in

the town I hope they can simply change the

roofline so that it doesn’t contain a third

floor then complete the build as soon as

possible. I know there will be great

demand for the houses.

This will be the last Flyer before the

Berkeley Show, The Berkeley

Festival and Berkeley Run. No doubt in

the next Flyer we will be hearing all about

Berkeley Square To Berkeley Square event

which follows in quick succession. But

right now I would just like to thank all the

people who have been working furiously to

put these events on for Berkeley. They are

something we should be very proud of, so

please, if you have friends and family

living outside the area, invite them to visit

and support these events that make us

proud to live in Berkeley. And let’s hope

the sun keeps shining !!

Gordon Craig

District Councillor Berkeley Vale Ward




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Fun for all the family at Dr Jenner’s House!

You can now enjoy days out at Dr Jenner’s House throughout the

year with our new Local Family Pass.

We’re really proud to be based in Gloucestershire, a county which

inspired and helped Edward Jenner in his world-changing work.

And now we want to give something back to celebrate this, so

we’ve launched a Local Family Pass. This allows 2 parents/

grandparents and up to 3 named children living in the GL

postcode area unlimited access to the museum during normal

opening times for a year for just £10 (a saving of £5.95 on the

usual family ticket price). So now you can enjoy trails and craft

activities throughout the year, wild garlic in the Spring, picnics on

the lawn in the Summer… the list goes on!

Just pop into the museum with £10 and proof of your GL

postcode (driving license, bank statement, utility bill…). We’ll ask

you to fill in a form so we have your details and then you can start

enjoying the museum. And if you are a UK taxpayer and let us

treat your payment as a Gift Aid donation then it will be worth an

extra £2.50 to us at no additional cost to you!

For more information, please see http://bit.ly/djh-pass or call

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2019 Calendar Photographic

Competition

Winning Entries to be used for the Berkeley Community

Library 2019 Local Calendar

The theme this time is ‘Berkeley and Villages in Colour’ – Local Buildings, Flora and Fauna in all their Glory.

This is a ‘Heads Up’ to start takings your Photos now – competition will open in the summer and further details will follow nearer the time.

(All photographs to be in A4 Landscape, and have a location please - £1 per entry)

We look forward to seeing more amazing photographs - there is real talent in this community!

Berkeley Community Swimming Pool(AKA School Swimming Pool)

Open Day 8th July 11:00 am until 2:00pm

The swimming pool committee invite you to come along with your

family and friends to enjoy a swim in our pool during our

forthcoming OPEN DAY.

Entry is through the gate at end of School Lane between the

School and the Library. Entry will be free and there will be hot

dogs and soft drinks on sale.

Last year was a huge success with a large number of people

attending, so break out the swimming costumes and join us.




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Windows, Conservatories, Doors, French Doors & Patios Maintenance & Repairs/Glazing

Traditional & Imitation Leaded Lights

Replace misted double-glazed units & broken glass

Deal with a local company & talk to one person from start to finish of the job

Now manufacturing double glazed sealed units and all types of flat glass

TELEPHONE 01453 811484 OR 07789 433453

COFFEE MORNING

EVANGELICAL CHURCH SATURDAY JUNE 9th

BERKELEY EVANGELICAL CHURCH 10.00 - 11.30am

Join us at our June coffee morning where the selection of home made

cakes will be as varied and as delicious as usual. The tea and coffee

makers will be hard at work in the kitchen brewing up for as many drinks/

refills as you'd like. We make no charge and everyone will be assured

of a warm welcome. We look forward to seeing you.

If you're tempted to come but aren't too sure of where we are located, or

you would like a lift here then contact Dawn 810494 or Grace 811138

BERKELEY PLAYERS

Our next Production will take place on

Thursday & Friday 28th & 29th June

in the Jenner Garden.

We hope to present 2 Plays by our Young People and 2 by the Adults

Tickets will be on sale from Berkeley Pharmacy on Friday 15th June.

Please bring something to sit on. Lets hope the Sun will shine. We look forwards to

seeing you.




For a regular entry in the What’s On Diary please email [email protected] before 15th of the month

Computer Club 1st Friday of the Month at the Library 11am

Bingo in the Mariners Arms From 3pm

Berkeley Community Library 10.30am - 4.30pm

Berkeley Rainbows The Scout Hut 4.15 - 5.30pm

Berkeley Brownies The Scout Hut 6.00pm - 7.30pm

NatWest Mobile Bank In the Police parking bay (outside Sema4 Graphics) 11am -1 pm

FitFix Exercise - Cam Memorial Hall 10am - 11am

Friday

Extend Exercise Classes for 60+ Scout Hut From 10.30am Contact Barbara 01453 766421

Bingo - Sharpness Village Hall from 7.30pm contact Jimmy Thomas 01453 811339

Coffee Morning Union Church Schoolroom 10.00 – 11.00am

Art Group Berkeley Library . £3.00 per session 10.00am—1pm. Bring own materials

Berkeley Players Rehearsals Town Hall, 7.00pm Youngsters / 8.30pm Adults

Circuit Training/Keep Fit Hamfields Leisure 6.30pm - 7.30pm Contact Sam Greenland 07443 501500

Beavers Scouts for 6 to 8 years old Scout HQ, Park View, 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Thursday

Berkeley Community Library 9.30am - 12.30pm

Coffee Morning Every 2nd Saturday of the month 10.00 - 11.30 at The Evangelical Church

Craft Club - Berkeley Library Last Wednesday of the month. 10.30am - 1.30pm. £2 all welcome

African Drumming for beginners Berkeley Library 2-3.30 £5.00

Dog Training - Sharpness Village Hall from 7pm contact Mike Vine 01453 822134

Berkeley Under 5’s Town Hall Toddlers - 9.30am - 11.30am

Ali’s Get Dancing Tots 9-9.45am, Scout Hut

P3 Community Based Drop In Town Hall, 10am - 12pm

Citizens Advice Bureau Town Hall, 1pm - 3pm

Berkeley Youth Club Canon Park Pavilion 6pm - 8pm

Coffee Morning Sharpness Village Hall 10 - 12pm Call Christy 07970 565099

Berkeley Gardening Club 3rd Wednesday of the month Library 7.30pm

Past-Times Café Marybrook Medical Centre Chat, Crafts, and tea. 2.00pm

FitFix Exercise - Stinchcombe Village Hall 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Alcoholics Anonymous Berkeley Steps Town hall, 7.30pm - 8.30pm, Town Hall

Town Council Meeting 3rd Monday of the month 7.30pm

Stay & Play Kids - Sharpness Village Hall 9.45am - 12 noon contact Sue Boxall on 07526101287

Youth Club - Sharpness Village Hall 6.30pm - 8.30pm contact Darren Brown on 07799067237

Beavers/Scouts Scout HQ., Park View Scouts 10½ to 14 years old 7.00pm - 8.30pm

FitFix Exercise - Stinchcombe Village Hall 6.30pm - 7.30pm

Monday

Community Bank - Town Hall, Tuesdays 9.15am - 11am

Poetry Circle: 1st Tuesday of the month 2-3pm at Berkeley Library. Informal group for reading, writing and enjoying poetry. Bring your favourites along

Town Planning & Finance Meetings 2nd Tuesday of the month 7.30pm

Berkeley Community Library Tuesdays 10.30am - 4.30pm Telephone 810520

Line Dancing/Ballroom Dance Class Hamfields Leisure 7.00pm - 9.00pm Contact Daphne 01453 826034

Skylarks Community Choir Town Hall, 7.10 - 9pm Term Time only. All welcome

Cub Scouts - Scout HQ. Park View 8 to 10½ years old 6.00pm - 7.30pm

FitFix Exercise - Cam Memorial Hall 9.45am - 10.45am

Crochet Group - Berkeley Library 11.00am. £1 per session. Everyone is welcome. Just bring a crochet hook and some wool.

Berkeley Walking Group

Meet 10.a.m. The Library Car Park. (Free) Coffee

optional afterwards in The Library.

Tuesday

Wednesday

Saturday

Sunday

Roman Catholic Mass Sundays 8.30am, 10.30am & 5.30pm St Dominic RC Church, Kingshill, Dursley

Berkeley Union Church Salter Street, Berkeley. (Next to Town Hall) Sunday Services 10.00am -11.00am Coffee, Tea and biscuits to follow




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Vale of Berkeley Railway After what seemed like interminable delays, we have finally started work on clearing Oldminster Sidings. There are four 300 yard long sidings which were last used in the 1970s. They are gradually emerging from the undergrowth, and these will form a most useful base for us. All clearances are based on an environmental survey and detailed guidelines governing what we can and can’t do each month. We could really do with some assistance, and any help would be gratefully received. We had originally hoped that this could be done on a relatively informal basis. However under the terms of our licence from Network Rail, and to comply with our insurance, only paid up members of VOBR are permitted on the site. Please don’t be put off by this. Joining is quick and simple, but be aware that another condition of our licence is that basic Personal Protection Equipment should be worn. This consists of safety shoes, stout gloves, eye protection and a hi-vis vest.

We plan to be there every Saturday until the end of June, and every Friday and Saturday from July onwards, so come and join in the fun. We meet on Bridge Road in Sharpness Docks, where the double railway track crosses the road, from 9:30. The current team consists of a range of ages and abilities. It isn’t heavy work. Imagine clearing an overgrown area of garden with loppers and a bow-saw. There are no pressures, goals or targets, except to work safely and enjoy ourselves.

Berkeley Station is looking better than it has for many years. All the vegetation has been removed. The weighbridge office has been cleared and made safe, and the surrounding grounds have been cleared and sown with grass seed. A flower garden has even appeared around the weighbridge office. Plans are currently being drawn up to see what the first phase of the restoration should be. Currently repair of the roof and front wall of the weighbridge office, and the reinstatement of Platform 1, are the main suggestions.

Work on the “austerity” saddle tank boiler is progressing slowly. The whole boiler has been cleaned inside and out, and de-scaled for the first time in decades. Fortunately we still have some members who are athletic enough to climb into the boiler through an 18 inch opening. Several new cracks have been detected, and remedial welding will be necessary.

The LMS brake van is looking more and more complete. 2 new sheets have been welded onto the end verandas to replace the rusted ones which were there when it arrived. These have been primed and painted, and then woodwork is now being re-fitted.

The April social evening at the shed was a talk by Iain McCall, the publisher of Locomotives International magazine. He showed us some of the Mystery (and Mysterious!) pictures which have appeared in LI over the years, and resulted in an entertaining evening looking at the lighter side of railways around the world.

The June event will be held on Thursday the 21st. It is an analysis by Richard Freeman of the Hixon train disaster of 1968. Richard tells the fascinating but horrifying story of the first railway incident to lead to a Parliamentary Court of Enquiry since the Tay Bridge disaster. Using previous undisclosed information, he casts new light not only on this terrible event itself but also the cover-ups in BR and the government and discusses how close we came to many other similar accidents on level crossings in the 1960s.It starts at 7:30 and local residents and non-members are welcome to attend.

Please note that we will be holding the May talk at Hamfields Leisure Centre, as this has better facilities than the engine shed, such as a licensed bar. If this is a success, we will use Hamfields for all future events, so if you are interested in coming, please check our Facebook “Vale of Berkeley Railway” site to see where future events are being held.

If anyone would like to see what we are up to, we are at the engine shed in Sharpness Dock on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and would be glad to show you around.

You can also become a ‘Friend of Berkeley Station’ by joining the Facebook group of that name, and helping us to start the process of giving Berkeley back its station. There is also a Facebook site of that name containing pictures of the various activities.


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