Walled Town Short Descriptions - Comments requested

Comments particularly from the town described are requested on the draft short walled town descriptions of Member Towns of the Walled Towns Friendship Circle,  have now been completed for 28 Members, fully paid up but which have not provided information for the main website - Please see separate page. 
Corrections and amendments will  be made as appropriate.All these towns are being invited to add to the information now provided. Final versions will be posted on the main Walled Towns website where a further 26 Members already have information (more detailed but without links) on the main site under 'Walled Towns'.
A revised printable version is now available

MEMBER TOWNS 2011 and 2012

Lucca - a crowning glory

MEMBER TOWNS OCTOBER 2011 at time of Lucca Symposium, when name was changed. 

List of Member Towns 2011 at Time of Lucca Symposium

1.     Drosendorf A/D Thaya Austria

2.     Friesach Austria

3.     Gmünd In Kärnten Austria

4.     Radstadt Austria

5.     Dubrovnik Croatia

6.     Nin Croatia

7.     Novigrad, Dalmatia Croatia

8.     Zadar Croatia

9.     Nicosia Cyprus

10. Policka Czech Rep.

11. Fredericia Denmark

12. Athenry Eire

13. Kilkenny Eire

14. Killmallock Eire

15. Youghal Eire

16. Chichester England

17. Narva Estonia

18. Montreuil-Bellay France

19. Sainte-Suzanne France

20. Pécs Hungary

21. Amelia Italy

22. Cittadella Italy

23. Gradara Italy

24. Lucca Italy

25. Senigallia Italy

26. Kuldiga Latvia

27. M'dina Malta

28. Valletta Malta

29. Vittoriosa (Birgu) Malta

30. Grave Netherlands

31. Hellevoetsluis Netherlands

32. Heusden Netherlands

33. Naarden Netherlands

34. S-Hertogenbosch Netherlands

35. Sluis Netherlands

36. Valkenburg Netherlands

37. Woudrichem Netherlands

38. Frederikstad Norway

39. Almeida Portugal

40. Lagos Portugal

41. St Petersburg Russia

42. Trnava Slovak Republic

43. Piran Slovenia

44. Ptuj Slovenia

45. Antonana (Arabarri) Spain

46. Bernedo Spain

47. Capdepera Spain

48. Contrasta Spain

49. Labraza Spain

50. Laguardia Spain

51. Peñacerrada Spain

52. Plasencia Spain

53. Salinas De Añana (Arabarri) Spain

54. Salinillas De Burabon Spain

55. Salvatierra (Arrabarri) Spain

56. Vitoria-Gasteiz Spain

57. Alanya Turkey

58. Bursa Turkey

59. Egirdir Turkey

60. Gaziantep Turkey

61. Karadeniz Eregli Turkey

62. Kutahya Turkey

63. Osmangazi Turkey

64. Beaumaris Wales

65. Caernarfon Wales

66. Conwy Wales

67. Cowbridge Wales

68. Denbigh Wales

69. Tenby Wales

Peter Osborne MBE 1921-2022 - Life President of Walled Towns Friendship Circle (later European Walled Towns).

A Quaker service of celebration was held in Tenby on 1st August 2022 for Peter who recently died in Tenby aged 100 had had two or more successful careers before I came across his new Walled Towns Friendship Circle by the happy co-incidence that I had a student working in the near-to-Bristol walled town of Chepstow.

A year earlier (1989) the Circle had emerged from Peter's fertile imagination and with his enthusiasm tempered by his friends John Beynon, John Tipton and Bob Storey it gained support from the Wales Tourist Board and the European Commission as part of the European Year of Tourism’. This Appreciation is also available as a .pdf

 Sadly but not unexpectedly, Peter Osborne MBE died today. A lovely man.

Further details and news of arrangements will follow

Peter Osborne 100 today - Congratulations from all walled towns!

Walled Towns Heritage

Peter Osborne Grants for Young People and Education in Walled Towns.

Peter Osborne, MBE founded the Walled Towns Friendship Circle in 1989 in Tenby and was its President until the year 2000 and continues as Honorary President for Life of European Walled Towns. In 2016, he provided a fund to create Grants for Young People and Education in Walled Towns. Walled Towns Heritage has been created to administer the grants and with

Peter’s 100th Birthday on 27^th November 2021,

 we can announce that grants have been made for the education of young people in five walled towns in Great Britain and Ireland: Berwick-upon-Tweed, Caernarfon, Conwy, Chester and the City of Derry/Londonderry. In all, over 80 percent of the funds have been disbursed. The Friends York walls has self-funded a parallel initiative and provided invaluable technical educational support. The North Wales Walled Towns Friendship Link is coordinating the projects in their area, a Bristol old walled city project is in prospect and a Symposium and continuing network to sustain the initiative is planned for 2022.

In Berwick-upon-Tweed, West Street Junior School is being funded to implement an historical diary project (adapted from one designed for York schools) for level 3 learners centred on the fortress town for the Summer term 2022.

For Bristol Old City, a scheme to explain the significance of 2023 as a 650 year anniversary of the independent County status of the town and city is projected (no grant committed as yet).

In Caernarfon the Humanities department of the Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen, will create a full unit of work over the summer term for all year 7 learners. With 90% Welsh speakers the medium will be Welsh and the project will culminate in a visit to the walled town by coach and boat with an excursion to Conwy as well. The School e-magazine will report the events.

In Conwy,a similar project will involve pupils from the Ysgol Aberconwy.

For Chester and potentially other walled towns,

the Chester Museum has commissioned a virtual reality exploration and tour of towers in the city walls for the use of schools with ‘Hi-Impact’.

In City of Derry/Londonderry the Friends of the Derry Walls has initiated the design of a souvenir guide to the full and varied history of the City of Derry and its ‘London’ walls for the use of its local schools. The grant will also act as a catalyst for further fundraising for urban archaeology.

In York, the Friends of the Walls is implementing the diary project designed by former Ofsted Inspector, Bill Hill.

 

 

 

So Happy Birthday and unbounded thanks, Peter.

With love and best wishes

Margaret Shaw Berwick-upon-Tweed

David Bruce, Bristol

Vicky Macdonald, Conwy

Jane Hebblewhite, Chester

Mark Lusby, Derry City

Bill Hill, York

Walled Towns Heritage Minutes Jan 23rd 2020 in York

Walled Towns Heritage

Patron Peter Osborne MBE

link to Published version Minutes Jan 23rd  2020 in York

"Opening Minds and Overcoming Barriers" Berwick-upon Tweed 16th-17th Oct 2019

The Walled Towns Heritage group - David Bruce (Bristol), Jane Hebblewhite (Chester), Mark Lusby(Derry/Londonderry), Vicky Macdonald (Conwy), Margaret Shaw (Berwick) met up with additional distinguished speakers - Dennis Rodwell, Brian Wilkinson, Stephen Scott and bill Hill, in the fine Berwick-upon-Tweed Town Hall.
They were hosted by Berwick's Conservation Area Action Group (CAAG), with other participants from Berwick and York.
Synopses, Profiles and Presentations are available here

The children and head teacher Ann Robertson from Tweedmouth West First School

Facebook link for Walled Towns Heritage and Berwick Booklet

Updates on current progress are usually first posted on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/walledtowns/ but this is the text of the participants booklet

 

Opening Minds – Overcoming Barriers

Walled Towns Heritage update

We were pleased to announce a new initiative launched in Berwick-upon-Tweed 19th October 2017 See more detail
FOLLOW UP MEETING 22ND JANUARY 2019  IN CHESTER.

The Outcomes of this meeting are being discussed among the participants and absentees. Our Patron Peter Osborne has been briefed and welcomes our initiatives:
We visited him on 21st February: 


















Keeping Peter Osborne updated and delighted to see Peter going about Tenby on his mobility scooter.

Walled Towns Heritage

Meeting to develop this initiative is to be held on 22nd January 2019. Watch this space!
We were pleased to announce a new initiative launched in Berwick-upon-Tweed 19th October 2017.

Walled Towns Heritage

a proposal to develop local Walled Town

‘Advocates’.

In July 2017, Peter Osborne MBE, Life President of Walled Towns Friendship Circle, founded in 1989 in Tenby (now European Walled Towns) proposed funding what he has called a ‘Walled Town Heritage Commission’. Contact point is David Bruce. Progress to date and more detail is on the dedicated 'Page' on this website