Volunteers in the Benwick Street Pride/In Bloom group are continuing to create special moments for all around the village with recently completed projects and more on the horizon.
The group has completed enhancements to the Second World War pillbox alongside the Old River Nene, clearing the area up and installing a soldier silhouette and ‘lest we forget’ plaque on its walls.
A new planter with a memorial rose at its centre has been installed opposite the St Mary’s closed church yard. In addition, a fence featuring chickens, pigs and sheep has been placed in front of ‘The Pound’ in Benwick High Street where stray animals would have been impounded in medieval times.
A £1,457 grant from the Burnthouse Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund funded the projects, along with a contribution to the fence from Benwick Parish Council. And now the group is working to create a stumpery at the old church yard, which takes inspiration from the Victorian tradition of growing ferns among upturned tree stumps. The stumpery will commemorate the coronation of King Charles III, who has one at his private residence Highgrove House.
Ransonmoor Community Fund has contributed £600 to the scheme. Fenland District Council provides a coordinating role for Street Pride groups across the district.
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