Enthusiasts are celebrating Tewkesbury winning a prestigious regional floral competition.
It won the town category in this year’s Heart of England in Bloom event, the precursor to Britain in Bloom.
Officials announced their decision at a ceremony in Warwick Castle, placing Tewkesbury above its category competitors - Stroud, Studley, Uttoxeter, Evesham, Leominster, Ledbury, Ludlow and Newport.
It was a triple triumph for Tewkesbury because it won a gold award yet again and long-serving volunteer Pete Aldridge was given a special award.
Tewkesbury in Bloom chairman John Badham said: “It is worth noting that we have had ten years now of gold awards and three times in the last four years we have been best in category.
Tewkesbury Museum has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Sharing Heritage grant, it was announced today. This exciting project, ‘Memories of Ashchurch’, led by Tewkesbury Museum, has been given £9,400 to to tell the story of Ashchurch Army Camp, and find out more about its remarkable history and its influence on the town of Tewkesbury.
Tewkesbury Museum collects and preserves objects of relevance to the history of the area covered by the town and surrounding villages. With an emphasis on voluntary support, our exciting new project will give the community a chance to discover the rich, colourful and sometimes troubled history of Ashchurch Army Camp.
Tewkesbury Medieval Festival includes a huge re-enactment of the Battle of Tewkesbury. Featuring around 2000 warriors, including knights in full armour, gunners, traditional English Longbow archers, men at arms with swords, spears and other weapons of the period, as well as a real canon, all brought to life with a lively and informed commentary, and taking place on part of the site of the original battle of 1471. The re-enactment is now widely regarded as the largest of its kind in Europe.
When not fighting many of the participants will be living for the weekend as soldiers on the march, sleeping in authentic medieval tents, eating food of the period, cooked over open fires in copies of medieval pots and pans, and preparing for the battle as they would have done in 1471.
Many of the traders on our market are just as authentic, dressed as 15th century traders, they use well researched skills to do everything from making swords and armour, to preparing ginger bread and hand stitching beautiful gowns and colourful tunics.
Basepoint Licensee Geckota Limited/WatchGecko have been creating, designing, developing and marketing high-quality watches, watch straps and accessories for the past 7 years. Specialising in creating watches that pay respect to classic, timeless design. They have established themselves in the micro-brand watch world, and have released six different models of watches with over 30 variations.
August saw the announcement of the finalists for the prestigious 2017 Gloucestershire Business Awards and we are delighted to announce that SmartSurvey has been shortlisted in the ‘Digital Business of the Year’ category.
SmartSurvey has been shortlisted in recognition for building a state-of-the-art survey system that offers customers advanced software to gather the information they need to make smart decisions. The judges recognised SmartSurvey’s talents in optimising all aspects of ecommerce to achieve growth and strong financial performance through exceptional customer experience.
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