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It's March and spring seems
to have arrived. The Sandwell Stride
walkers are really enjoying their
afternoon in the Park

Why not join Carol for her Sandwell Stride Health Walk in Dartmouth Park. We meet at 2pm every Monday at the Reform Street Entrance to the park, whatever the weather. As you can see from the photograph we're all enjoying our first taste of spring this year. The ducks, geese and swans were all very active and noisy as they felt that spring had arrived at last.

Steven Hodgkinson has recently joined the new Wildlife Trusts Black Country Living Landscape project. The project aims to enable greater awareness of, access to and engagement with the region’s natural environment by much of the Black Country’s population while at the same time protecting and enhancing the area’s rich biodiversity.

Steven offers a free service for groups like ours and can help to organise events, give guided walks, talks, activities and encourage a wider group participation. The aim of the project is to engage communities with their green spaces and is driven by groups needs. He is helping the Friends of Dartmouth Park to produce a book for children which will include all aspects of the park's trees, plants and wildlife. He is also working with Sheepwash Nature Reserve, Priory Woods, the Mill Pool Project.

On the left Steven showing the buds on a tree in the park which means spring is definitely on the way.

Harold Bolter CBE
The Friends of Dartmouth Park have recruited several new members in 2010, including Harold and Sheila Bolter, who originally came from West Bromwich, but now live in Cheshire. In his recently published autobiography Harold tells of his beginnings, in what he refers to as a slum, in Beeches Road, opposite Dartmouth Park, and how the park played an important role in his early years.

Harold went on to become a journalist with the Birmingham Post and then Industrial Editor of the Financial Times, before becoming the public face of British Nuclear Fuels and later a main board director. His time at BNFL, however, ended in very difficult circumstances.

'The Tenth Child' is an interesting and enjoyable read in the chapters referring to West Bromwich, and becomes a fascinating account in later chapters of life at the top and how it felt to be in the news instead of writing it.

'The Tenth Child' is available in all good bookshops

photograph of park flowerbeds in summer.

This page was updated 1st March 2010

We feel we are justifiably proud of our beautiful local park

Mailing Address :Friends of Dartmouth Park
New Street Lodge, Dartmouth Park, West Bromwich, B71 4AS

Committee:

 

Nigel Slater
Chair
Roger Stopford
Vice-Chair
Annette Welch
Treasurer
Carol Hartill
Secretary
Betty Finney Margaret Geddes Pauline Lawley Sue Slater
  Mandy Timms
Membership Secretary
Mark Barrett
Social Historian
 

email:
carolh.fodp@btinternet.com
annette_welch@sky.com

 
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