Blue & Green Plaque ‘winners’ are revealed Following an online public vote that ran throughout July, Foresters’ Forest can now reveal the 10 historic figures who will be remembered with a special Blue or Green Plaque, displayed within the Forest of Dean. A total of 396 people voted to decide which 10 historic Forest heroes should be remembered in this …
Vote for the Forest’s historic heroes!
The Forest of Dean has many people that have played a huge part in our history, and now the Foresters’ Forest National Lottery Heritage Funded programme is looking to recognise some of these local figures with a plaque – and they need your votes! Who do you think should be remembered with a special Blue or Green Plaque, displayed within …
The Forest’s built heritage transformed
The Forest’s built heritage transformed The Foresters’ Forest, National Lottery Heritage funded, ‘Built Heritage’ project, has delivered several successful small-scale conservation and building preservation works on a number of key heritage sites in the Forest of Dean this year. Many of our Built Heritage sites are becoming overgrown by vegetation and gradually crumbling away as the Forest grows over the …
Anyone can grow some fruit and veg
Anyone can grow some fruit and veg yes, anyone can grow some fruit and veg even if you don’t have a garden. Window ledges and sills are perfect places to start seeds off and even to grow on to full size. Good examples are lettuce, spring onions and just about any salad leaf can be grown in pots on your …
Reflection Window Cleaning
Reflection Window Cleaning We have seen the van from Reflection Windows outside our neighbours and decided to give them a try. They did a marvellous job on cleaning our windows which are much too high for us to reach and yesterday they returned to clean our fascia boards. I can’t recommend the highly enough and they are based in near …
Take an online journey through the extraordinary ‘Story of the Forest’
Take an online journey through the extraordinary ‘Story of the Forest’ What if you needed to find out quickly what was happening in the Forest of Dean in the Middle Ages or when exactly the last deep mine in the Forest closed? Well now there is an easy way to explore our Forest facts and figures from 9000BC right through …
Growing your own
Growing your own vegetables Amid all the doom and gloom over coronavirus , the last few days have been warm and gloriously sunny, so Vanda and I have been out in the garden and thoroughly enjoying it. We are still eating leeks, onions, garlic and purple sprouting from the garden. These of course will soon be coming to an end …
Self Isolating in the Forest of Dean
Self Isolating in the Forest of Dean Like many others we are doing our best to stay at home as much as possible, but the fact of the matter is it is simply impossible to completely self isolate. We retired here 5 years ago so we don’t have family members to help. our children live in Manchester, Southampton Stonehouse and …
Local Paralympian Mel Nicholls to officially name “Barney” the Tramper
Local Paralympian Mel Nicholls to officially name “Barney” the Tramper ‘Walking with Wheels’ are delighted to welcome Paralympian Mel Nicholls, who will officially name “Barney”, the all-terrain scooter, on Thursday 19th March, 10am at Forest Holidays at Christchurch near Coleford. Come along to have a free demo ride on “Barney”, and to meet Mel to find out about her journey …
Environmental charity calling on local artists to help highlight new recycling on-the-go initiative
Each year 250 tonnes of rubbish is removed from the Forest of Dean, costing local taxpayers £457,000 per year to clean up. In 2016, environmental charity Hubbub launched its #LoveYourForest campaign, to tackle the issue through a number of interventions which in four years, has seen more than 800 bags of litter collected in the area. Now, in its fifth year, Hubbub is calling …