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Green Wood Centre Events

  
Looking for something to cheer up these dreary winter nights?

Oldacre Wines

Warmly invite you to come and sample some of our exceptional wines and complimentary food at our forthcoming wine tasting evenings

Oldacre Wines is a family business based in Shropshire, and specialise in sourcing from small producers who strive to create wines of character. In particular, we represent two English winemakers in South West France, who are both becoming recognised for high quality, affordable wines made with minimal chemical intervention.

We are hosting two wine tasting evenings in conjunction with our foodie friends The Pampered Chef, and Cherry’s Café. Our wine tasting evenings offer an enjoyable, informative and inexpensive opportunity to try, and of course buy, some high quality wines not found on the general market, these will be teamed up with some tasty treats especially selected to compliment the different wines.

How’s that for putting a bit of zing into a winter’s evening!

Thursday 28th January
In conjunction with
The Pampered Chef

Thursday 4th February
In conjunction with
Cherry’s Café

Both evenings start at 7.30 p.m. and offer a selection of
carefully selected light bites designed to compliment our various wines.

Ticket price £5.00 per head.

Over 18’s only

The venue is
Cherry’s Café & Woodland Hall
@
Green Wood Centre
Station Road,
Coalbrookdale TF8 7DR

To book your ticket, or if you can’t wait and want to buy some wine before hand just contact Liz on

Phone: 08432 898 055
E-mail: liz@oldacrewines.co.uk
www.oldacrewines.co.uk

 
   

Ironbridge Gorge Walking Festival Programme

1st - 9th May 2010

Click here for more details >>
   
Annual Ironbridge Coracle Regatta

Bank Holiday Monday 30th August
12-4.30pm Dale End Park

The Coracle Regatta now holds an established place in the Ironbridge calendar attracting coraclers from all over the country. There will be sprint races, relays, the highly competitive coracle polo match and other daft games. Be prepared to get wet!

The Regatta is also a lovely day out, with stalls and activities and the chance to have a go yourself. You are welcome to bring your own coracle if you have one.
   

Coracles are flat bottomed boats made from woven wood covered in animal skins - or, more often nowadays, canvas sewn on and waterproofed with tar or bitumen. Coracles have been used for thousands of years in Europe and especially in Wales and the Welsh borders. Every region and even villages had their own design, many still around today. Coracles were used for fishing, ferrying and - commonly in Ironbridge - for poaching.

The Green Wood Centre would like to pay tribute to Eustace Rogers who sadly died in 2004. He was the last in a long line of Ironbridge Coracle Makers and was a familiar sight to many in the Gorge. He was kind enough to share his knowledge with the Green Wood Centre which has enabled us to teach coracle making to hundreds of people from all over the world.
 
Apple Day - in celebration of everything 'appley' and much more!

October 2010

Last year’s Apple Day was a resounding success and this year it hopes to be just as good. The centrepiece will be the beautifully restored traditional twin-screw apple press, a piece of equipment dating back to the mid-19C. It requires nothing but muscle power to operate them and last year was busy all day, pouring out some 200 gallons of apple juice.

Shropshire Apple Trust who are responsible for having restored the equipment and organising the event are again inviting people from all over the County (and beyond) to bring their apples in the two weeks prior to the event. Bring as many apples as possible - of whatever variety - and take them to the Green Wood Centre.
   

The fun doesn't stop at the pressing, either. Taste a wide variety of old and unusual varieties as well as good examples of common apples. This year there will also be a huge display of different apple varieties from around the country, including some particular to Shropshire. There will be 'hands-on' craft demonstrations of the work of the Green Wood Centre including pole lathing, suitable for adults and children alike. Children are particularly well catered for with apple bobbing, apple prints and even their own small-scale apple pressing equipment - try stopping them drinking the juice! There will be a pork roast and vegetarian food option and the chance to try and buy country wines and cider, including that made by Shropshire Apple Trust who dreamed up the whole occasion here in the first place!

For further details regarding the event, please contact:
Michael Pooley 01952 433632.
   
   

National Beanpole Week - 17 - 25 April 2010

Support your local woods: use coppiced hazel beanpoles to support your beans this year!

The area of coppice in the UK has fallen dramatically since the 1950s and we need to bring these woods back into management.

Hazel coppice provides valuable habitat for animals such as the dormouse,nightingales, warblers and many more species.

Coppicing is a traditional and sustainable form of woodland management that ensures a continuous supply of useful products.

Hazel beanpoles provide an attractive and effective addition to your garden.

To find a local supplier or an event check out the websites below.

www.allotmentforestry.com or www.coppice-products.co.uk

or call the Green Wood Centre on 01952 432769

 
   
 
 
Supported by the Forestry Commission and part of Small Woods Association registered Charity number 1081874
 

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