Sherborne In Bloom - Carving Up The Town

Sherborne Castle, home to Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618 (beheaded)), a favourite of Elizabeth I and one of the founders of modern America

Friday 25 May 2007 - Carving Up The Town

Hi gang,

At our meeting on Tuesday we decided that we would carve up the town between us to make sure that no bloom in Sherborne goes unsnapped!

We made some decisions about who would do what, but there are some gaps to be filled.

Could you please study the map and table below and let me know what (more) areas you could undertake to cover. The grid references are taken from the map that Alec distributed. The squares indicate only some of the major landmarks and are not a definitive taxonomy.

A1	B1	C1 Quarr Lane Caravan Park Gryphon School Bristol Road	D1
A2	B2 Sheeplands Lane Barton Gardens Girl's School	C2 Cheap Street Methodist Church garden Newland Paddock Garden Manor House Yeatman Hospital	D2 Tinneys Lane Fosters Field Castleton Road East Mill Lane
A3 Bradford Road	B3 Horsecastles Lane Wingfield Road Ridgeway	C3 Abbey Close Pageant Gardens Boy's School Station Almshouses	D3 Sherborne Castle
A4	B4 Lenthay Road	C4	D4

Here are the task allocations so far:

Alec, Ray & Nora	Cheap Street shops. Pubs, hotels, restaurants, cafes.
Ted	Quarr Lane Caravan Park
Linda	Abbey Close and streets to the west
Betty	Ridgeway estate, Lenthay Road
Keith & Gillian	Newland, Newland Garden, Paddock Garden, Manor House , Flats
Norman
Brian H	Allotments
Brian C
Linda, Betty & Gillian	Girl's School

What we want to do is to make sure that every square of the map is covered. This will involve undertaking to walk all the streets in a square, noting what there is (or isn't) and taking pictures when the blooms are at their best. Some squares can be walked by one person: others are denser and will need two or more.

So, in the first instance could you please let me know which streets you are prepared to walk and snap. If you could give me a list of the streets I will mark up a master (paper) map and we will distribute these to let everyone know who is doing what. And when I've heard from you I'll be able to isolate any areas where we don't have coverage so that gaps can be plugged.

Please email me with your offers and please let me know if you have already done any photography.

I'll then get a detailed schedule going and post it up here so that everyone can see how we're doing.

Look forward to hearing from you.

g.

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Sherborne Bradford Abbas Camera Club are supporting 'Sherborne In Bloom 2007', our town's entry in this year's prestigous Britain In Bloom competition.

Members of the club will be roaming the town taking photographs of the gardens, containers, shops, pubs, restaurants, allotments, open spaces, private spaces - in fact, anywhere where they can find spectacular blooms!

The photographic entries will be displayed in the town in judging week (mid July).

This blog is primarily for the photographers to keep in touch with one another and to monitor progress as we shoot the town's flowers!