Month: April 2016
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Civic Award for Pittville Gates
The project to refurbish Pittville Gates has earned a 2016 Civic Award for the Restoration of an Existing Structure. The project team received the award at a ceremony at the Town Hall on 20 April. As well as Friends of Pittville (Chris Archibald, Fiona Clarke, Judie Hodsdon and Judy Langhorn), the award recognised the partnership…
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Naming the play area boat
We invited Friends of Pittville to suggest names for the boat (actually a wreck) in the sandpit in the new play area. The final choice was The Jolly Joe – appropriately piratical with a reference to Joseph Pitt. There is no prize, but the person who made the winning suggestion (who prefers to remain anonymous)…
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Lighting a beacon for the Queen’s 90th birthday
During the evening of Thursday, 21st April, Cheltenham will be joining over a thousand other towns, villages and communities in lighting beacons to celebrate the 90th birthday of Her Majesty The Queen. The Prince of Wales will invite Her Majesty The Queen to light the principal Beacon at Windsor Castle. This will be followed by…
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Pittville park aviaries to be renovated thanks to GET grant
Thanks to a grant from the Gloucestershire Environmental Trust, the aviaries in Pittville Park are being refurbished. The work will include replacing all the mesh, repairing and repainting the metal work, repairing all the timber structures, improving the facilities for the animals and making the aviaries more educational and interactive for members of the public.…