Thanks to Rob Scott for some photographs taken within the last year or so.Above: As the heavens open at Furze Hills (South Cambridgeshire), John A uses a bin bag to stay dry!Above: At Downs Barn in Milton Keynes, the ...
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News spreads
The BTCV Bedford Weekday Conservation Team's fame spreads: http://www.goodiesruleok.com/news.php?cod=1082 picked up news of the Network Rail award! ...
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An Employee Action Day at Shortmead House
On a fine summer day in July (Wednesday 16th), a great team of volunteers (employees of T-Mobile UK Ltd) generously donated their time to help out with some environmental action in Bedfordshire. 32 people worked very hard in ...
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Wigmore Park 24/07/08
Wigmore Park is mainly a playing field near Luton Airport. However, at the very rear of the site there is a public footpath and an area of unimproved grassland. We started a path clearance job here last year (a very overgrown ...
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Downs Barn 21/07/08
John 'wine gums' Keynes would be proud of our mathamatical abilities (awful joke - I know - Maynards make wine gums and Keynesian Econmics - John Maynard Keynes - if you didn't get it). It may have been simple maths, but none ...
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Mowsbury Hill 17/07/08
Mowsbury Hill in Bedford is somewhere the Weekday Conservation Volunteers have been many times before. Not for me. It is a very nice site - quite hidden unless you are familiar with the golf course & regularly shank balls ...
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The shirt that will never get washed again!
Above: The receiving of the award.Above: The Bill Oddie speech. You may be able to make out John sat at the table with Tom Flood and the back of my head!!!Above: The venue - it certainly looks stunning from this vantage ...
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Tom Flood joins our celebrations
BTCV Chief executive, Tom Flood (below right), accompanied John Anderson (below middle) and myself (Ed Green - below left) to the Network Rail Environment Awards held at the Natural History Museum in London.At this award ...
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Weir Reconstruction at Priory Country Park
On 30/06/08 and 03/07/08 the Weekday Conservation Team took on a few projects at Priory Country Park. One of which was the reconstruction of a weir.Above: Duncs is lurking in the background with a drill. Rob, in the yellow ...
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The Pightle, Eaton Socon
3 of our long serving Weekday Conservation Team volunteers (see photographs) are working hard at raking the grass at The Pightle in Eaton Socon. This is another of our regular sites and one where wild flowers flourish in the ...
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