Public
areas
Memorial Gardens
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Identified as a major area for improvement
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New layout designed and plan submitted to Town
Council
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Work parties cleared old and overgrown
shrubbery and cut new beds
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One bed planted out entirely with pansies which
were part of a donation of 1000 plants
Pritchard Memorial
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Planted with tulips and wallflowers for spring
display
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Planted with annuals and pelargoniums in shades
of pink, purple and mauve for summer colour
Cemetery
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Erected hanging baskets and installed planters
Bridgnorth Road entrance to town
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Cut back and tidied up shrubbery
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Planters put in place and filled with annuals
and geraniums
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Extended planting by unique Broseley town sign
Shops
and retail
areas
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Half barrels placed along the High Street,
planted with polyanthus in the spring and pansies in the summer; all these
plants were donated
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‘Waterfall’ features placed at each end of the
High Street and filled with summer plants
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Hanging baskets erected along the length of the
High Street
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Competition run for the best frontage of a
licensed premise elicited an enthusiastic response
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Broseley does not have multiple stores, retail
centres, bus or train stations
Residential
front gardens
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Pamphlet delivered to every house encouraging
people to keep their front gardens looking attractive
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Competition for the best front garden was
judged by Newport Heart of England in Bloom committee
Community
involvement
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Working parties cleared beds, planted, weeded
and dead headed, with children spontaneously joining in
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Town Council allocated time for their two
employees to weed and cut grass on the Memorial Gardens
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Members of the Youth Club planted pots outside
the Birchmeadow Centre
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Girl Guides planted out troughs in Jackson
Avenue
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Brownies planted out troughs and are
maintaining them as part of their gardening badge
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Over 800 sunflower seeds distributed to primary
and pre-primary schoolchildren; a competition for the tallest sunflower will
be judged in the autumn
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Jackson Avenue residents built on their success
of achieving a Special Award last year by holding cake stalls to raise money
to improve their new kerbside gardens
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Residents helped by watering tubs and planters
until the water bowser was delivered
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Residents of Sherlock Hoy Close have placed
hanging baskets and planted out flower beds
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Residents along Coalport Road have cleared a
section of the roadside and planted annuals
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Inspired by Broseley’s entry last year, John
Wilkinson Primary School has started an Environmental Club. The children
have :
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Laid out a vegetable garden and are growing
beans, peas and onions
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Planted up beds and pots in the courtyard
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Dark Lane School has built two vegetable
gardens and the children are, among other things, growing beans, rocket and
courgettes
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Mount Nursery School has a display of mini
beasts and artificial flowers in E Davis & Son shop window
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The children have also made a small garden and
planted it out with annuals
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Broseley Pre-School has planted out troughs and
pots with flowers and tomatoes which the children keep watered
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The Family Craft
Group, which was set up especially for Broseley in Bloom at John Wilkinson
Primary School, obtained a grant from Shropshire County Council to make a
display of origami figures and flowers for the Cats’ Protection League shop
window. The children also took their own photographs of flowers and were
taught how to manipulate them
