Author: Louise Allerton
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This year’s cygnets
It’s always a delight to see the new cygnets on the lake. Five were born this year and at the time of writing they are all alive and well. Let’s hope it stays that way.
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Spotted: Mysterious cleric in search of the new cycle path?
You never know what you’re going to see when you go up to the Pump Room – especially at the Friends of Pittville Drop-in. On this occasion there was a lot of activity, with people in period clothing. Who was that cleric on a bike? Was he lost – perhaps looking for the new cycle…
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Green Flag and Green Heritage Site Accreditation
Pittville Park is judged biannually for these two internationally recognised awards and this took place on 1 May this year. The Green Flag Award Scheme recognises and rewards well-managed parks, setting a benchmark standard of recreational outdoor spaces. There are 27 criteria on which the park is judged. The Green Heritage Site Accreditation award is…
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Uncovering Wartime Memories
Pittville History Works group recently received a query from Mrs Pauline Paucker. At 95 years young, she is in the process of writing a memoir of the wartime evacuation to Cheltenham of her school, King Edward VII High School for Girls in Birmingham. She approached us to see if we could find any information on…
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Green Space Volunteers’ Tool Shed
FoP has applied to the Gold Cup 100 Community Fund for a grant towards purchasing and erecting a tool shed at the back of the aviaries. The tools needed by the Green Space Volunteers for their working parties, every first and third Thursday morning of the month, are brought to the park by the CBC…
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New Native Tree Habitat Board
Many of you will have seen the Wildflower and Lake Habitat boards in the west side of Pittville Park, which inform visitors about some of the biodiversity there. The same team of volunteers are working on a third board with the theme of ‘native trees’ that describes the benefits that this habitat provides. Native trees…
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A New Sensory Garden For Pittville
FoP have obtained a grant of £1000 from the Cheltenham Neighbourhood Community Infrastructure Fund 2023, and are contributing a further £1500 from their own funds, to complete phase 1 of a project to turn the six brick planters between the main children’s play area and the aviaries into a sensory garden. The work of clearing…
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Message From The Chair | March 2023
Hello everyone, it is now March, and Christmas and New Year festivities are a distant memory and I am sure we are all starting to look forward to the spring. For those of us who regularly use Pittville Park, those harbingers of spring, crocuses and daffodils, made the most of an unseasonably warm February to…
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The restoration of Pittville Pump Room steps
On 20 November 2023, despite some rain, lots of people gathered to attend the opening ceremony of Pittville Pump Room steps, following the restoration carried out by Friends of Pittville, with the help of Snape Contracting Services. The Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, Edward Gillespie, cut the ribbon and unveiled the plaque commemorating the King’s coronation…