Breaking News Newsletter for Breaking New Ground Landscape Partnership Scheme
Sept 2017
A newsflash for project partners and participants with news items, project updates, special features and forthcoming events.
Building Skills Workshops Return!
Goodbye Ed!
We’re delighted to announce that the extremely popular Brecks Building Skills workshops will be returning this autumn with two more day schools, at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village!
On Thursday 31st Aug we said goodbye to Ed Goodall, the BNG Project Officer, as he leaves the partnership team for pastures new.
Ed joined Breaking New Ground in August 2015, and we’d like to say a big thank you to him for all his hard work over the past couple of years. He’s been a An introduction to using locally sourced trees for small fantastic member of the team, turning his hand to scale timber frame construction. We will look at tree everything from fence building to starring in two of our selection and a traditional approach to converting small short films! dimension logs into components for use in building. Demonstrations include the conversion of logs into shingles and oak into timber frame pegs. Hands-on activities include using a froe, draw knife, side axe and shave horse. Vernacular Building with Trees 23rd Sept 10-4
Vernacular Building with Earth 27th Oct 10-4 Get your hands (and boots) dirty as you explore the historic use of earth as a building material. Demonstrations and practical sessions in making and using daub and clay lump. Bring your own wellingtons for a fun and informative day out.
He’s now off to start an exciting job for the Woodland Trust as Treescape Development Lead in the South Downs Area. He says “It’s been a pleasure working to deliver some wonderful projects, showcasing the fascinating and diverse heritage of the Brecks”
Tickets are free but booking is essential. Book your ticket on Eventbrite here: TREES: https://buildingwithtrees.eventbrite.co.uk EARTH: https://buildingwithearth.eventbrite.co.uk
Ed as a 1920s Warrener in ‘The Warrener’s Tales’ (second from left)
Project Focus A5: Engine House On August the 9th, we officially opened the Engine House, with a fantastic launch event, attended by project partners, the construction team, and the volunteers who have been involved in delivering this exciting project. We’d like to thank everyone who has helped make the Engine House project a reality and hope that many of you will be able to use the space as a great venue for your events. See over for details of prices and how you can book it for free if you are a not for profit or charity organisation.
At the launch, we presented volunteers Ronald and John Bowes with framed piston rings from the Ruston & Hornsby single cylinder engine that used to power the machinery in the Engine House as a thank you for all their help in uncovering the history of the building. The piston rings were discovered hanging on a nail in the Engine house, in the place that Ronald remembered his father hanging them back in the late 1920s! The remaining ones are still hanging on that same nail, and have a small plaque telling their story. Looking down at the newly installed well lighting
Contact Brandon Country Park to book the Engine House: 01842 810815 BrandonCountry.Park@suffolk.org.uk
Brecks Events BNG Events Vernacular Building with Trees 23rd September 10-4 West Stow Country Park (delivered by Orchard Barn CIC) Vernacular Building with Earth 27th October 10-4 West Stow Country Park (delivered by Orchard Barn CIC) Partners’ Events Tongues of Flame 4th September 1:30– 2:30 Do you have any memories to share about fiery activities in Brandon? Do you have stories about the gunflint industry, the gasworks, the fire stations or the air bases? Come to a story-gathering session on Monday 4th September in Brandon Library. No need to book. Just drop in with your postcards, photos, memories. Run by writers Melinda Appleby (of BNG’s Sandlines project) and Diane Jackman will be taking notes The stories will be used to inspire a performance at Brandon’s exciting Fire and Flint day: Brandon Fire and Flint Day Saturday, 23 September, from 3pm Come to Market Hill for a festival day celebrating Brandon past present and future. Bring your family and friends to take part in a range of creative activities – get involved with crafts, get inspired by body art, be immersed in a series short performances throughout the town centre, and enjoy the food and drink on offer.
The finale of the festival day will be a light projection performance “Fire&Flint” by Anomic Multimedia.
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