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Green Spaces Newsletter WARWICK DISTRICT GREEN SPACES 9 1 S 0 2 ep r tembe Green Space of the Month Radford Road Meadows Located to the South of the River Leam in Sydenham, South Leamington, In this edition this five-hectare nature reserve adjoins Newbold Comyn and consists of flood meadow, marsh, trees and hedgerow. The site was purchased • Meet Jay Wheatley, by Warwick District Council in 2017 as an extension to the existing Fun Park Manager Leam Valley wildlife corridor. At this time the site was added to the • Green Flag Awards - results portfolio of nature reserves that Warwick District Council manages in • Pond Creature partnership with Warwickshire Wildlife Trust to safeguard local wildlife. Competition winners! Mature oak and sycamore trees grow along the hedgerow boundary • September, the first with Radford Road, while marsh areas are managed to retain their open signs of Autumn character with minimal intervention. This includes the removal of tree saplings and encroaching scrub. Grassland areas are cut on a two- year rotation to ensure that foraging areas and shelter are available for overwintering animals such as bees, beetles, larvae and small mammals. The river provides a perfect habitat for the beautiful kingfisher, and other bird species at the meadows include chiffchaff, cuckoo, nuthatch and kestrel. Butterflies to look out for include Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Meadow Brown, with Banded Demoiselle, damselflies and dragonflies often seen flitting around the river area. Radford Road Meadows relies on volunteers from the local community to help with management. If you would like to get involved please contact Warwickshire Wildlife Trust – www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk Postcode: CV31 1LQ Parking: Radford Road Car Park (next to St Mary’s Allotments) Public Transport: 63 or 67 Bus to Radford Road from Upper Parade, Leamington. September Events and Activities What to look out for in September Sunday 1 September, 9am start Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 September, • Thursday 19 September 2.30pm Look out for the first signs of Autumn, the temperatures Many butterfly species continue to fly through September Kenilworth Half Marathon 10am-6pm Leamington Society Guided Walk – are getting lower and the leaves in our green spaces and beyond, look out for varieties such as the Small Warwick Road, Kenilworth. Food and Drink Festival Jephson Gardens are turning to beautiful shades Tortoiseshell and Red Admirals in our parks and gardens. Adult race and free fun runs for Pump Room Gardens www.heritageopendays.org.uk of yellow, russet or red. The renovations of the bowling greens are in preparation children with Kids Run Free Annual food and drink festival in the Heritage Open Days booklets Early September is prime-time for the Commonwealth Games in 2022 are due to start (starting 11.30am) heart of Leamington Spa. available from Leamington and for foraging for blackberries this month. We have appointed our Green Spaces www.kenilworthhalfmarathon.co.uk www.royal-leamington-spa.co.uk/ Warwick Visitor Centres and and other fruits such contractor idVerde to undertake the very important whats-on/leamington-food-and- Thursday 5 - Saturday 7 September, Kenilworth Library. as elderberries too. specialist task of relaying two of our greens, as the drink-festival-2019/ 6pm to 9pm current surfaces are on a slight slope (apparently!) Sunday 15 September, 10am-5pm Bird nesting season will Moonlit Cinema, Mill Gardens Friday 13 September, from 9am Original Bounce have finished and some With the football season in full swing, club Thursday Top Gun, Friday Pretty (Race Start 11am) Pump Room Gardens of our seasonal birds football is being widely played on our green Woman, Saturday E.T OVO Energy Tour of Britain Giant inflatables for big will start their migration to spaces, with opportunities for a more informal www.moonlitcinema.co.uk Warwick Racecourse and little kids! warmer climes. Watch out for kick around using our newly installed goals. Warwick Racecourse will be the Saturday 7 September, 9.45am-12pm huge flocks of swallows getting ready official start of Stage 7 of the UK’s Sunday 22 September, Shortly we will be starting to cut the Sponsored Walk, Victoria Park for the 6000-mile journey to South Africa. biggest and most prestigious 10am-12.30pm yew trees in the cemeteries. A walk to raise funds and awareness international cycling event with the The Big Push, Victoria Park for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. 120 riders processing through the A 5km walk/buggy push to highlight www.mssociety.org.uk streets of Warwick. and raise money for maternal mental www.tourofbritain.co.uk/ health and wider work of NCT. Results! stages/stage-7 [email protected] Friday 13 to Sunday 22 September Saturday 28 September, It was a lucky 13 for the Green Spaces team with the Trust and the Friends of Oakley Wood and Crackley Wood. Heritage Open Days arrival from 10am, Walk starts 11am. recent announcement that Jephson Gardens has won an This is the second year in a row that we have received This year’s festival includes guided Memory Walk impressive thirteenth successive Green Flag Award, the three green flag awards for our district! tours of our parks and green spaces. Victoria Park international mark of a quality park or green space. Congratulations also go to Foundry Wood on Princes • Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 Charity walk to help change the At the same we also got the news that Crackley Drive and Myton Pools off the Myton Road who received September 2.30pm Brunswick lives of people affected by dementia, Wood in Kenilworth and Oakley Wood near Bishop’s Green Flag Community Awards from Keep Britain Tidy. Street Cemetery Guided Walk (meet now and in the future. Walk distance Tachbrook were also awarded prestigious Green Flags. These spaces are maintained and cared for by their the guide at the central entrance to 1.5km or 5.5km Both woodlands are owned by the district council and respective Friends Groups of volunteers for the enjoyment the cemetery on Brunswick Street). www.memorywalk.org.uk/find-a- maintained in partnership with the Warwickshire Wildlife of local residents and visitors. • Wednesday 18 September 2.30pm walk/leamington-spa-2019/ Leamington Society Guided Walk – Pump Room Gardens OFEST • E C C E O Pond Creature Competition - our winners! • F T E S S In August, the Green Spaces team ran a competition E T F Pump Room Gardens Programme Update • at Art in the Park festival in Leamington to fill our E O C C E O ‘Green Spaces pond’ with lots of amazing creatures. Following The Bandstand Returns The newly refurbished bandstand • F E T event on 15 March this spring, has seen a wealth of local acts S The pond was quickly filled with beautiful and quirky summer has seen some fantastic performing, including Joe Dolman, fauna – but only six creatures could be selected to events taking place on the newly Levi Washington, Sambassadors feature in our newsletter this month. Here are our restored Pump Room Gardens. of Grove and Royal Spa Brass wonderful winners! These have included two brand as well as poetry and talks. Water mite (silver spider legs) - Louie, aged 7 new events organised by the We hope you have managed The Golden Heron - Oliver, aged 10 Green Spaces team: Ecofest on to make it to some of these! 5 May and the (rescheduled) Big Frog with top hat - Theo, aged 9 If not, remember to check out Victorian Picnic on 27 July. the Leamington Food Festival Dragonfly - Olivia, aged 3 Other events at the PRG have on 7 and 8 of September, and Jellyfish - Akaal, aged 6 included the annual Leamington Original Bounce on the 15 - our Peace Festival, Leamington last events of the season! Scary newt - Jodie, aged 18 Carnival, Warwickshire Pride and Thank you to everyone who participated, Art in the Park, among others. and well done to our winning entries! of A day in the life Jay Wheatley, Managing Director, Green Space Leisure, St Nicholas Park How did you get involved in the fun park at St Nicholas Park? I have a fairground background and grew up with travelling rides on the fairground circuit. My family were based in Leicestershire so I remember days out at St Nick’s. There’s been a fairground here for well over 40 years, and our family knew the people who used to operate it, with the Peter Pan train ride and other attractions. Around 25 years ago, my dad saw an advert in the World’s Fair, asking for new operators. He was getting fed up of setting up fairs at muddy bonfire events, so we applied for the contract and my brother and I joined the business. How has the fun park What’s the most challenging What would you do if developed since then? part of your job? you won the lottery? When we took the site on we very The weather – and there is nothing How much are we talking?! I’d travel quickly had to get a new train we can do about it! It makes again – but not in fun fairs, I’d travel running on the existing tracks in working out the cash flow tricky. the world! I’d pay my mortgage off time for the new season at Easter. and make sure my kids could go We still have the original train in What do you do with your into the business if they wanted. our yard – the Mississippi Train! free time? Which is your favourite As time went on we gradually I bought a house 18 months ago, green space in the district? moved away from travelling to and because it needs renovating focus on our permanent site we’ve been living in the annexe It’s got to be St Nick’s because here and we’ve been making while I try and complete the work we are so well established here, improvements and adding new in my spare time.
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