THE STORY OF WEST HUNSBURY PARKS NEW BENCHES
BEFORE (2022) ~ a couple of lovely oak trees cut down in Green Lane …..
BEFORE (2023) – Had ideas; needed money ……
The National Lottery Community Fund liked our ideas and gave us a grant which enabled us to do most of what we wanted to do.
We researched chainsaw artists and timber/logging movers and proceeded to get quotes.
DURING (May 2024)
First, Dan & Toby Brown cut the logs to ‘bench’ size, and then used Anna & Tookie, two beautiful Comtois heavy horses, to move the logs :
Peter Leadbeater had to reduce the size of the largest log to allow Anna & Tookie to move it :
DURING (June 2024)
Once the logs were moved, chainsaw artist, Peter Leadbeater, and his colleague, Alex, could get to work to sculpt the logs into artistic benches :
AFTER (June 2024)
RESULT ! Six new sculpted benches for West Hunsbury Parks :
1 – at the entrance to the Country Park :
2 – overlooking Shelfleys Lake :
3 – Wootton Brook Park picnic area :
4 – Country Park Play Area Meadow :
5 & 6 – outside the Drovers Return café :
More photos of our Heritage Open Days Viking Weekend in September with Jotunns Wrath & friends ~ these are by Paul Harris / Heritage Open Days, Sep. 2023
Jotunns Wrath & friends ~ pictures from the Living History village in Hunsbury Hill Country Park
for Heritage Open Days weekend, Sep-2023
Coronation Decorations, Country Park entrance, 30th April 2023
Coronation Decorations, Ladybridge Park, 1st – 8th May 2023
1st May
3rd May
4th May (am)
4th May (pm)
To Be Continued ……
5th May
Christmas seasonal display, December 2022
Heritage Open Days, 17th & 18th September 2022
The Queen’s Jubilee Beacon, lit at St. Benedict’s Church on Thursday 2nd June 2022
Country Park Entrance Decorations for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee
Queen Suzie and Grenville the Grenadier Guardsman
Our royal scarecrows for West Hunsbury Active Resident’s Facebook group Easter Scarecrow Festival, April 2022
William the Shire horse and Robert Clarke of Hartwell Shires Meet & Greet, Saturday 31st July 2021
Here’s a selection of Chris Stone’s photos of William meeting & greeting
Snowdrops, Feb-2021
Hunsbury Hill Rocks Christmas, December 2020
William the Shire horse chain-harrowing our Wild Flower Meadow, 20th September 2020
More Spring Flowers and Bluebells, 2020
Winter Photo Competition, 2019/2020
Wood chip Work, Monday 17th February 2020
Bird Box Bonanza, Jan/Feb 2020
Spring Flowers in January 2020 ….. and February
Winter Walk 2019
The BIG Leaf Sweep 2019
(24th November : a practice run for next time when we will hopefully have some volunteers)
Northampton and East Midlands In Bloom
Bat Walk and Moth Survey, 25th September 2019
BloodAxe Vikings, Armée du Nord, Bifrost Guard and Warriors of the Black Bear, 14th/15th September 2019
plus pebble painting and NIRT trains
Hedge Trimming, Saturday 24th August 2019
Scavenger Hunt, Sunday 21st July 2019
Alfie Bear’s Picnic, Saturday 13th July 2019
BloodAxe Vikings with Wodens Hearth, Northland Mercenaries
and also Armée du Nord Normans, 7th April 2019
Tree Trail, March 2019
Litter Pickers 3rd March 2019
Friends Race Night, February 2019
Winter Walk, December 2018
Bioblitz, Bats and Moths, August/September 2018
Scavenger Hunt, August 2018
Alfie Bear’s Picnic, July 2018
Miscellaneous
