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Do the Audio/Virtual tour of our Park!

Posted on April 7, 2021 by Kerry Hood

We have created a virtual tour of our park, including some of the fascinating memories, that older local residents have sent us.
There are 12 stops around the park:

 

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Map of Havelock Recs showing the stops on the Virtual and Audio tours

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Posted in front-page | Tagged Audio-Tour-With-Memories Virtual-Audio-Tour-With-Memories

Proudly presenting, at the park near you… Raglan Avenue

Posted on March 14, 2020 by Kerry Hood
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People digging holes and planting trees in Raglan Avenue

 

 

We are very grateful to Raglan School Eco-council for funding and planting a new row of trees, along side the all-weather path, to form an avenue… christened Raglan Avenue!

 

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Phil applying a sledge hammer to stake a new tree

 

About 20 parents and friends turned out to plant and stake the new trees, with lots of help from the children of Raglan school.  The new trees look fantastic!

The kinds of trees that we planted were:

  • goat willow (salix caprea)
  • silver birch (betula pendula)
  • flag pole flowering cherry (prunus serrulata amanogawa)
  • common/european beech (Fagus sylvatica)
  • golden leaved elm (Ulmus carpinifolia aurea)
  • variety of plum (prunus sp.)
  • liquid amber or american sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
  • flowering cherry (Prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea)

Posted in Events front-page | Tagged Raglan Eco Council Tree Planting

2018 Happy New Year from your Local Park!

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

Just a brief note to wish all our supporters a great time this yuletide season, and that you might enjoy a good new year, and a thank you, everyone, for your unstinted support this year! Please keep an eye on the events page on the website so you don’t miss anything (though we will put posters on the noticeboards too) 

I think we can say that the park has had a good year with all round improvements.

You might have noticed that, at the end of last year, we put up some rustic oak benches with the help of a volunteer group; Emma organised this – very well done – and Mark contributed the wood, so thanks to both of them!

In the spring, we had a record display of daffodils around the trees on the Havelock side of the park, thanks to the grass-cutting team who left them until the end of spring before mowing the area around the little trees.

Idverde, who are contracted to maintain the park, fulfilled the council’s obligation to replace some of our trees this summer, and put a ‘hippo’ bag for each new tree.

These dark green bags have a gap at the top (and a gap in the mesh protection too) that allow them to be watered – thanks to those people who watered the trees, that were within staggering distance of their houses! It was very beneficial to getting them through the dry spell in good nick.  This year we have a new parks officer at idverde, Caroll Long, that you might meet in our park, she’s got lots of knowledge and enthusiasm, so it’s going to be great to work with her!

This year’s Big Lunch was very enjoyable, and lots of thanks go to Rebecca and Michelle for organising it – the cakes were as delicious as always! Unfortunately there was too much wind for the hot air balloon to take off, but I noticed that most of the men were standing around it chatting for ages, whilst being regaled by stories of ballooning derring-do!

In the school summer holidays we held our BirdBox and Bug hunting day, and a new family picnic days, both of which the weather behaved and we all had a good time.

From the bug hunting: a wool carder bee, a gatekeeper butterfly, and some people on the bug hunt!

 

We held another Hoedown in September, but on review, we are not sure that September is a good time to hold an event? Anyway, we will be re-thinking our events, and perhaps concentrating more on the Big Lunch and summer events, as this has not proved very practical for making the necessary arrangements during the summer.  However, if you want to help and have your say on our decisions, all our committee meetings are open and we would be thrilled to see any of you!

Finally, just the other week, we have some more new trees – a little min-coppice of pine trees in the ESE corner near the green lane (to Waldo Road Waste Transfer station!).  These will look really fabulous in coming years, and it’s great that they’ve been planted at such a good time of year, so they can put some roots down before the park dries out in the summer! Apparently these were planned in November 2016, so it’s great to see them!

Wishing you all the best in the new year,

Emma, Kerry, and your committee.

Posted in activities front-page News Letter | Tagged newsletter

Havelock Hoedown 2017

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

We had a fantastic afternoon, and even the sun came out to play!
Thanks to everyone who came and made it such a good day!

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There’s a special mention for the Baker Girls who really contributed to the fun, and Mick whose calling meant that all the dances were do-able!

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Posted in Events front-page | Tagged Havelock Hoedown

Bird-box & Bug day 2017

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

We painted little bird boxes to go home, and hunted all over the field to see what bugs we could find!

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Posted in Events front-page | Tagged bugs

Havelock Recreation Ground designated Local Green Space

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Kerry Hood

In November 2016, alongside 20 parks in the Borough, we were designated the title of Local Green Space. A Local Green Space is a:

“green or open space which has been demonstrated to have special qualities and holds particular significance to the local community which it serves.

Development which causes harm to the ‘special qualities’ of a Local Green Space as defined within its Statement of Significance but is otherwise policy compliant will be considered inappropriate and will not be accepted except in very special circumstances.”

A lot of work and time went into the submission for this, so we are very proud to have achieved this status.

You can read the full documentation including the other parks that were granted this status, which is part of the Council’s Draft Local Plan, here.

Posted in front-page news-items | Tagged Local Green Space Local Plan

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Local History, Photos & Reminisces

Browse our collection of remarkable local reminisces in our oral history pages look at the park's previous incarnation as a working brickpit or a summary of it all here.

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Early morning landscape by Jon Emmanuel
Landscape by Jon Emmanuel
IYellow Lab Daphne playing with her friend Molly
It's snowing!
evening light over our park
snow angel!
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snowmen and snow forts in 2009
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dragging the sledge back up the dip
The firemen parachuted in to raise money in 2005
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fun-in-the-snow snowman making
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