Some areas we would like to improve!

Our walk around Pudsey yesterday helped us to identify some small areas of land that really are looking neglected. Once we have the necessary permission to begin work on them, we will start making these look much more attractive!

Most of these areas have either been used as public thoroughfares, with people trampling over the grass and plants, others have just been neglected over the years with shrubs left unpruned.

And there are areas in the car park where attempts had been made to plant trees but unfortunately these have been vandalised, and are now just driven over!

We hope that by the end of the year Pudsey folk will begin to see a definite improvement.

New Year, first meeting...new projects!

We had our first meeting of 2010 in January, and are once again all fired up to enter Pudsey into the Yorkshire In Bloom Competition...the year started well with a couple of new members and a boost to our bank balance, as towards the end of 2009 we were again successful in our applications for funding both from the Pudsey Borough Charity (£200) and the YEP cash in the community awards (£900)




This money has been `earmarked` for the development of some neglected areas around Pudsey, and this will be the main focus of this year`s activities.



This week we are meeting to identify some areas that we can work on, and then we will be able to plan what we would like to do.



See the next post for some pictures.

Oh..What a winter!!

We have just had one of the worst winters (or start of winter!) since the 1960`s........a wander round Pudsey shows what the troughs looked like in December 2009...hope to have a more colourful contrast to take pictures of come Spring 2010!

Fame for the Tripe Baths

Since our posting on the 12th December about the fate of the tripe baths, we have been contacted via email by an Italian group who run their own blog that is full of facts and stories all about tripe!
They were very interested in our story and have featured our story on their Italian site! Who would have thought that Pudsey`s fame would travel so far?
If you click on the link below it will take you direct to their tripe blog....you may need to use Google translator to translate some of it.
It just goes to show that everything is of interest to someone!

http://troppatrippa.blogspot.com/2009/12/salvate-le-vasche-del-trippaio.html

The fate of the tripe baths!

Many Pudsey folk may be completely unaware of the two old tripe baths that for years have been in situ in front of the leisure centre and lovingly planted up each year.

There is history attached to these baths as they once lived in a shop owned by Job Ross in Lowtown, he was the local tripe dresser and the tripe he would sell to his customers was washed in the baths. This was many years ago and after he passed on they were given a new home as flower pots...bizarre maybe, but some folk are very attached to them.

Now with the building of the new bus station, the baths had to come out and Pudsey In Bloom have been trying their best to avoid them being destroyed and are trying to find them a new home. A local building company, Farmac, have kindly offered to move them for us and store them until we can find them a new home.

Keep checking for updates on the tripe baths!!

Here`s a photo of them in their old home in front of the leisure centre:

And in a rather sorry state, amongst the rubble that will be Pudsey`s new bus station:

That`s another job done!

All the barrier troughs were today planted up with a selection of primulas, violas and spring flowering bulbs. The displays should bring a bit of cheer to Pudsey over the coming months whilst it undergoes the disruption that will be caused by the building of a new bus station that has now started and is not expected to be completed until September 2010!

We also planted two japanese acer trees, one in each library bed, kindly donated by one of our members.

Our newly acquired folding wheelbarrow bought with group funds, colour coordinated as well!

Article in Pudsey Times about our Silver Award.

An article has been posted in the Pudsey Times about our Silver Award in this year`s Yorkshire In bloom competition.
Read about it here:

http://www.pudseytoday.co.uk/news/Pudsey-celebrates-Yorkshire-in-Bloom.5704155.jp