Bridport Millennium Green
A Year in the Life of Bridport Millennium Green
Throughout 2011 Bridport Camera Club is using the Green as a project site to record images from the gardens, the woodland and the meadow.
During the summer of 2012 there will be a photographic exhibition at the Arts Centre enabling the local community and our visitors to see the inspiring work of our local photographers.
HOW WE GOT HERE.
In May of 1999, Bridport Town Council learned that they had been granted £83,373 by the Countryside Agency toward the setting up of a 'Millennium Green' in the home of our Town Council offices. The then mayor, Cllr. Sandra Brown, went to London in the June of that year to hear this announced by the Arts and Culture Minister, Chris Smith. She was disappointed when she had to come home without the cheque.
The Millennium Green Trust was set up and work started. The project was completed and the Green opened by H.R.H., The Duchess of Gloucester, G.C.V.O., on 30th May 2001. We have to thank former Town Council staff who worked long and hard to achieve this for all of us to enjoy. Since then, the Green has been used for several varying events but it needs to be better known and utilised. A "Friends of Bridport Millennium Green" group was set up to help raise the profile needed, and to keep the gardens and the hill as we would wish them to remain, for future Bridport generations.
Location and Directions
Items to Buy
Mugs and trays to buy, a great gift or souvenir, available at events or via the Chairman.
Committee
- Chairman: Miss Sandra Brown, 67 North Allington, Bridport, DT6 5DZ
(Phone: 01308-423078) - Secretary: Mrs. Daphne Mundy, 3 Meadow Court, Bridport, DT6 3UW
(Phone: 01308-422286) - Treasurer: Vacancy for forthcoming term of office
Help Wanted
We welcome any help you could provide for the continuing audit of wildlife species, a good basic knowledge is required, ragwort & nettle pulling etc. Please contact Millennium Green Trust Chairman Peter Broomhead ~ 01308-897408.
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Millennium Green Events
"Photographic Evening".
Thursday March 8th 2012. World renowned photographer Guy Edwardes will be giving a slide show (landscapes & nature) and talk in the newly refurbished town hall. 7.00 for 7.30 p.m. Please arrive in time to be seated by 7.30.
Tickets: Adults £7.00. Complimentary refreshments will be served. Raffle.
To reserve your ticket/s (limited to 100), please contact Greg on 01308-425664 or email:
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Please be aware that any reserved tickets that remain unpaid or not collected, will still be charged for.
Guy’s presentation is entitled “More ways to take better landscape and nature photographs” and includes over three hundred images, most of which have been taken over the last two years. The images help to illustrate some of the methods he uses to capture his favourite wildlife and landscape photographs. The presentation is comprised of two halves, each roughly an hour in length.
Techniques such as painting with torchlight, shooting wildflowers with long telephoto lenses and how to approach wildlife are discussed in detail. He also touches on some of the techniques he uses in post-processing. This presentation is all about tips and advice so you can be sure to learn something new and will hopefully be inspired to get out there with your camera to experiment for yourself.
"Easter Egg Hunt".
Easter Sunday 8th April 2012 from 2.00 p.m.
An afternoon's enjoyment for the youngsters. After the success of the 2011 event, it has been decided to 'do it again'. Entry will be free and all are welcome. More information as I get it.
"May Fair".
Sunday May 20th 2012, on the green.
Full details and entertainment not yet finalised but you can please put the date in your diaries. Help will be needed on the day. Again, more details nearer the date.
"Kings and Queens Visit The Green".
Saturday 7th July 2012 on the green, ~ just to keep you guessing, watch this space!
"Millenium Green Photographic Project".
Members of Bridport Camera Club continue to capture many and varied images of life on The Green. Most recently those of the Hat Festival and autumn images of squirrels and cobwebs.
We look forward to next year's exhibition in The Arts Centre.
"Diamond Jubilee".
In celebration of Her Majesty's Jubilee, open spaces used by the community are being encouraged to register with the new "Queen Elizabeth ll Fields in Trust".
Bridport Millennium Green Trust has registered Bridport's Millennium Green.
The Friends will be planting a tree in the late autumn of 2012 as part of National Tree Week to commemorate the Queen's Jubilee.
