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Please note Amersham Town Council Temporary Office Move
Amersham Town Council will be extending the temporary move of the administration office until the end of December 2010 at:
Deacon House
St. Mary’s Court
The Broadway
Amersham Old Town
Bucks HP7 0UT
Telephone, Fax nos. and email addresses remain unchanged.
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Heritage Open Day-Sunday 12 September 2010
Attractions for the young and young-at-heart are set to be on offer on Sunday 12 September 2010 in Old Amersham High Street and Church Mead
Clowns, an animal farm, Punch and Judy, balloon modelling, face painting, classic car display, free vintage buses running from the Fair Organ Museum in Plantation Road to Whielden Street, (sponsored by the Amersham Society), Workaid, National Trust, BBOWT, Chiltern Society, Amersham in Transition, craft demonstrations including bee keeping, chair caning, textile embroidery, spinning and weaving are booked for Amersham Heritage Open Day. The event promoted by English Heritage, aims to encourage visitors to see the best of the country's unique legacy of historic buildings, landscapes and archaeological sites. Buildings will be open to the public, craft workers will show their skills and representatives from civic organisations including the Amersham Society will be present. Morris Men, the Doyle Dancers and a bouncy castle will also provide family entertainment during the day's activities, which take place between 11am and 5pm.
Places opening their doors include the Drake Chapel, St Mary's Church, the Quaker Meeting House, the Methodist Church and King's Church. Refreshments will be provided by Amersham Townswomen's Guild upstairs in the Market Hall, in aid of Shed @ The Park and the Bensheim and Krynica Town Twinning Societies will be running their hot dog stall near the Memorial Gardens in the High Street.
The Amersham Museum in the High Street will be open from 11am with half price entry fee and free organised guided walks around the Town. They are also running their popular Amersham Martyr's Walk at 11.30am and again at 2.15pm.
The Amersham Band will be playing in the Memorial Gardens from 2.30pm providing an opportunity to sit down and enjoy some music and light refreshments will be provided by Seasons Catering in the kiosk. Mark Jones, Town Crier of Amersham will be present to assist in making this an enjoyable afternoon.
London Transport Museum will have Sarah Siddons and the 1938 stock running. Journeys will be running between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham Station. You can then pick up the free vintage bus service running between the Fair Organ Museum in Plantation Road and Whielden Street in Old Amersham. Sarah Siddons was built in 1922 and is the last operational Metropolitan Railway electric locomotive; the only surviving working engine out of 20 built by Metropolitan Vickers. Tickets may be obtained by calling 020 7565 7298. For more information from the London Transport Museum on the running day, please click here
There will be a road closure in operation from the Market Hall, along the High Street until Mill Lane from 11am until 5pm.
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Amersham in Bloom 2010
Competition Results
The judging has taken place of the gardens entered for the annual Amersham in Bloom competition. There were more entries than ever this year and the judges were impressed by the high standard and effort that local gardeners had taken. Van Hage gardening vouchers, Van Hage life time membership, Fox’s Outdoors vouchers, Tesco vouchers and certificates were awarded at the Amersham Carnival on Saturday 10 July 2010 by Amersham Deputy Mayor, Councillor Michael Andrews-Reading. Amersham will be hosting the Thames and Chiltern Award in St Mary’s Church, Old Amersham on Thursday 30 September 2010. The event will be attended by dignitaries from across the whole Thames and Chilterns region.
Winner for Best Garden Colette & Malcolm Sully
2nd Prize Mrs Katie Jones
3rd Prize Mr S Wootton
Highly Commended Mr & Mrs Morton
Winner for Best Window/Hanging Basket Mr & Mrs Physick
2nd Prize Mrs M Hoar
3rd Prize Beth Trew
Highly Commended Mrs Sara Horsley
Winner for Best Community Garden Amersham Museum
2nd Prize The Worthies
3rd Prize The Copse
Highly Commended Day’s Almshouses
Winner for Best Business Premises Season Café & Deli
2nd Prize The Eagle Public House
3rd Prize The Saracen’s Public House
Winner for Best School Garden Chestnut Lane Infant School
2nd Prize Heatherton House School
3rd Prize Henry Allen Nursery School
Highly Commended Chesham Bois C of E School
Winner for Best Allotment Dr Anna Sorensen
2nd Prize Mr J Picton
3rd Prize Vanessa Brown & Alison Greenhalgh
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Amersham School children plant for gold!
Preparations for Amersham in Bloom were well under way this week with the planting of the signature flower beds.
Pupils from Amersham schools joined Amersham Town Council and the Mayor, Cllr Martin Phillips, to plant out their very own floral designs. The competition to design the winning flower beds was held in the winter. It was with great excitement that the children began to see their designs come to life.
Chestnut Lane School planted the signature flower bed at Woodside Road/Hyrons Lane accompanied by Rotarian, Chalmers Cursley and the Mayor. Sophia Harvey won the design for her School.
St Mary’s C of E School planted the Boot and Slipper roundabout accompanied by Rotarians, Chalmers Cursley and Derek Bryant along with the Mayor. St Mary’s C of E School also won the competition for planting on the junction of Station Road/London Road West. Chalmers Cursley, Allan Childs and Pat Armstrong accompanied the children. Designers were Thomas Fleetwood-Law and Amelia Moy.
KEY DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
22 July 2010 – National judging of the town’s communal gardens and facilities.
30 September 2010 – Amersham Town Council to host the national prize-giving ceremony for the whole Thames Valley and the Chilterns!
To help maintain our Gold Standard, Steve Catanach and Neil Spencer from Amersham Town Council, plant up one of the four planters in Amersham Old Town, keeping the gold theme in tandem with the Post Office planters in Hill Avenue, Amersham-the-Hill.
Young Environmental Photography Competition
We are inviting students to part in the 'Student Environmental Photographer Competition', sponsored by the Rotary Club of Amersham. The theme of the competition is Britain In Bloom: The International Year of Bio-diversity. With the term biodiversity simply meaning 'the variety of life on earth' the entries can be photographs of anything from the ecosystem, whether it be plants or animals, to the physical environment. Other than that there are no rules!!
There are two first prizes of a camera up for grabs, one awarded to the winner of each category, details of which can be found here
Anti Social Behaviour Order