With the wonderful summer weather, the growth of bracken grasses and flowers in Jean Green’s meadows has been enormous – so much so that the children from the Early Years (St Briavels Playgroup) and the Reception class (St Briavels School) Read More
Saturday 1 October saw our autumn meeting, this year a mini-symposium on the subject of Water. It was a full house at the Mackenzie Hall with over 60 people packed in to hear the speakers. The PGP’s George Peterken began Read More
After a spell of dry weather, the Met. Office accurately forecast rain to start at 4.0 clock p.m.on Thursday 27th June in West Gloucestershire. The predicted drizzle intensified and by 6.0 p.m. when 20 stalwarts assembled in the car park Read More
Warm, cloudy but, happily dry, the 18th June was the day when 21 pre-school age children from the St Briavels Early Years and 17 from the School’s reception class visited flower meadows at Hollyside Farm, Brockweir Common. The meadows..permanent pasture Read More
Our autumn meeting on Saturday 29 October proved to be the most popular we have held in ten years, save only for an even more popular evening on bats a few years ago. With 56 people crammed into the loft Read More
For a few weeks in the summer of 2011, we placed a map in the village shop to collect deer sightings, and, thanks to 30 or so contributions, we now have a map showing where deer are most often seen. Read More
The people who arrived to fuel the growth of settlements in the areas of Brockweir and Hewelsfield from around 1830 onwards would have been compelled to maximise the produce from the plots they, in most cases, ‘appropriated’ on the commons Read More
Sunday May 23rd was a beautiful, hot, sunny day, perfect weather for a relaxed walk around John Josephi’s orchard. Around two dozen people turned up to hear John start by explaining that he had inherited the land from his father, Read More
The sheep, cattle and horses in our fields have competition. Fallow deer are now common in the district and regularly emerge from cover in the woods to feed in the fields. Wild boar, having been released into the Forest of Read More
On the 4th of March, we held our meeting on field boundaries and their management with about 35 people present. We had invited two outside speakers, both of whom were none too well on the day, but came nonetheless, and Read More