DBHS

Dawley Bank Horticultural Society

Archive for July, 2008


   Jul 24

2008 Third 1/4 Newsletter

Severn Hospice is fortunate to have an extensive team of volunteers working in most departments at the three sites Shrewsbury, Telford (Shropshire) and Newtown (Powys). Each volunteer is selected for his or her skills and life experience and together form an extremely valuable resource. They work closely with the patients; complementing the professional staff with [...]

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   Jul 24

2008 Second 1/4 Newsletter

This year we are supporting The Severn Hospice. The Severn Hospice needs over £3,000,000 a year to provide its wide range of services to the local community. Only 33% of this sum comes from government funding. That means each and every day they have to raise, through voluntary income, over £5,500 to keep the Hospice [...]

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   Jul 24

2008 First 1/4 Newsletter

This year sees us supporting The Severn Hospice Severn Hospice cares for those with progressive illnesses across a broad age range. They help those who need them by their high standards of nursing and medical care, trying always to sustain peoples quality of life and relief from pain. To their families, friends and carers they [...]

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   Jul 24

2007 Fourth 1/4 Newsletter

Our annual Christmas Concert is to be held on Saturday 17th Nov with Shrewsbury Male Voice Choir, 7pm, St Johns Church, Lawley, tickets £4.50 (£4 cons) available on the door, refreshments and raffle inc, in aid of the RNLI. Christmas bells are bringing to you heavenly Christmas tidings In the passion of Christ There is [...]

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   Jul 24

2007 Third 1/4 Newsletter

New ideas and fresh input are always welcome at DBHS, so when Val Hodson had a ‘notion’ and asked/suggested “Why don’t you have a Top Tray category for the young people”? Val helped with the blue print and now a Top Tray category for sixteens and under has evolved. Val and her family have generously [...]

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   Jul 24

2007 Second 1/4 Newsletter

RNLI today lifeboats in action frightened exhausted in a battered yacht being tossed about by high seas, a sailor makes a desperate Mayday call. Days later, he and his crew will think about how they survived their ordeal. They will remember the glimpse of an orange and blue lifeboat; her crew members risking their lives [...]

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   Jul 24

‘Leave Them Peas Alone’

August was reaching its end, vegetables carefully grown and nurtured throughout. The summer months had now reached maturity, the soft fruits, apples, damsons, and pears were plump and ripened. Beneath laden trees grass wet with heavy dew lay festooned with crimson windfalls. Summer flowers bowed respectfully to the season’s conclusion. It’s the time of year [...]

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   Jul 23

DBHS Garden Walk- Sunday 8th July 2007

DBHS are holding their annual Open Gardens event on Sunday July 8th. The starting point will be at Kath & Malcolms 6 Ladygrove (Old Office Rd ) Here you can collect your map and partake of refreshment.

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   Jul 23

MADELEY GREEN DAY – 1st October 2006

MADELEY PARK, OFF LEGGES WAY. Information and Health and Safety Declaration. Please return this form to Madeley Parish Council, Jubilee House, 74 High Street, Madeley, by Thursday 28th September

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   Jul 23

DAWLEY BANK FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SHOW 2006

This year supporting Telford Guide Dogs For the Blind as they celebrate 75yrs of Guide dogs on the streets of Britain. Oh What A Day!!!! Truly a community led success!!! The weather forecast did say rain; 5.40am Sat September 2nd not a cloud visible as we began the task of loading trailers with marquees, gazebos, [...]

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