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 

1990s EWT walled towns European project report

Newly digitised 1993 EWT walled towns European project report is now available as part of theTime line of EWT/WTFC. 

Linda Thorpe of Conwy

Very sad to have to report death of Linda Thorpe but I have found a lovely picture of her taken in Ozmangazi, Turkey in 2009 and Vicky Macdonald has contributed a splendid appreciation see obituaries page.