June 2019
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16 June Bucks Art Weeks
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Memorial Orchard
This spring, the trees in Wendover Memorial Community Orchard off Rope Walk Meadow have given their best blossom to date. This is very appropriate since the orchard was planted in 2014 to commemorate the 59 soldiers who did not return to Wendover after World War 1 and this month is the end of the centenary as the Peace Treaty was signed 100 years ago. See page 10 for the last in our series Wendover Remembers. Many thanks to Mike Senior and Val Moir who researched and wrote the articles. This is your last chance to send to Wendover News any information about this period, especially to do with local people and their activities or the built landscape.
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Best Kept Village 2019
Last year Wendover won the Buckinghamshire County Council Best Kept Village. Tom Walsh, chair of Wendover Parish Council, reminded us: “Wendover is a Village. It is though, a big village. That means, with regard to the competition for Best Kept Village,
RAF Flypast
when judged by population, we fit in with the towns.” This illustrates the eternal confusion in Wendover about the title town/village. We’re entering again and judging starts in June. Don’t worry about the title! See page 32 for more.
Tuesday 4 & 18 June at 1.30pm
To celebrate the completion of training at RAF Halton we can expect a flypast (weather permitting)
ANTIQUES AT . . . WENDOVER
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June Mystery Object at the Antiques Centre Mental Health Charity
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