The December 2013 edition of the Bradley Stoke Journal magazine will be dropping on doormats this weekend. This issue includes a four-page Christmas special, with articles on the recent Willow Brook Centre Christmas lights switch-on event and a fantastic charity Christmas lights display on a house in Watch Elm Close (have you seen it yet?). The centre spread contains a
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Sunday morning at Northwood Park, Trench Lane, saw St Mary’s Old Boys RFC host a fantastic Bristol Junior Combination under-16s cup game against Clifton, a match that had a lot riding on it. The two teams had met before in the final of the Gloucester Cup last season, so the home side were ready to dish out revenge, something they
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Bradley Stoke Town Council (BSTC) is to alter the signage at its Brook Way Activity Centre (adjacent to Bradley Stoke Surgery) after a resident complained that the main sign currently in place is “misleading”. Speaking at the October meeting of the council’s Leisure, Youth & Amenities Committee, the resident suggested changing the large ‘Scouts’ sign over the front of the
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Bradley Stoke Youth FC (BSYFC) Under-11 Girls saw off AEK Boco Red on a bitterly cold morning in Hanham but the football on show was a real showcase for the Bristol Girls’ League with both sides playing open, attacking football. The away side took the lead on 15 minutes when a late challenge on Lydia Tang saw them awarded a
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The group behind a plan to create a war memorial out of the two granite posts in the Town Square at the Willow Brook Centre has applied for a £3k grant towards an alternative “standalone stone memorial of contemporary design”. The move comes five months after the original plans, which involved mounting black plaques onto the existing granite posts, were
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To mark the Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) group’s first six months, there will be a public meeting at the Jubilee Centre on Tuesday (26th November), starting at 7.30pm. As well as sharing mince pies and non-alcoholic mulled wine, the group will be sharing their progress to date and their (ambitious) plans for the future. There will also be an
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Bat detectors are available to borrow from Bradley Stoke Library and each detector now comes with a field guide and a leaflet on bat detecting in Bradley Stoke. The leaflet was written by Gill Smith (committee member of the Three Brooks Nature Conservation Group) and John Morris (South Gloucestershire Council) and contains information on bats and a map showing the
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The Willow Brook Centre in Bradley Stoke has won a Green Apple Environment Award in the national campaign to find Britain’s greenest companies, councils and communities. It competed against more than 500 other nominations and Centre Manager Scott Lahive and Joy Souch, Centre Administrator, were presented with the award at a glittering ceremony in the House of Commons on Monday
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Bradley Stoke in Bloom (BSiB) is going from strength to strength with two recent big achievements, write group members Geoff Roach and Sara Messenger. We are taking part in the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) ‘In Your Neighbourhood’ scheme, which provides smaller volunteer-led community groups, such as ourselves, the opportunity to get involved with the wider Britain in Bloom initiative (which celebrates
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Hopes that people living in one of Bradley Stoke’s broadband ‘slow spots’ might be able to subscribe to new superfast (24Mbps+) services in time for Christmas have been dashed after BT quietly put back the ‘first order’ date to the end of the year. The telecommunications giant announced in April 2011 that it would be upgrading its Filton telephone exchange
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