The Beech Gardeners hosted a talk by Rosy Hardy on Wednesday 1st March at 7.30 pm in the Beech Village Hall. Tickets £5 - phone Kathy 01420 549401 or Sheila 01420 88924. Rosy of "Hardy's Cottage Garden Plants", winners of 21 Chelsea Gold Medals, is coming to give a talk and live plant ... Read more
Valentine’s Party – Cancelled
Due to low numbers, we have had to cancel the Valentine's party on February 10th. ... Read more
BGs’ Christmas Party 2016
The Beech Gardeners held their Christmas Party on 7 December at Kathy and Neil Pearce's house, in their games room. The food and first drink were provided by the BGs' Club and after that we bought the subsequent drinks. Wonderful sandwiches, prawn balls, cocktail sausages, pigs in ... Read more
Beech Christmas Fair 2016
The Beech Christmas Fair was held on Sunday 27 November at the Village Hall and was very well attended by local residents and their friends and relatives. The stallholders came early and set up their stalls and what a colourful array they were - there is a gallery below of all of ... Read more
Beech Village Bonfire Night 2016
There was a great turn-out for this year's Guy Fawkes' Night with an enormous gathering at the Village Hall and a spectacular torchlight parade up Wellhouse Road to the Recreation Ground where a wonderful bonfire was waiting to be lit. Everybody threw their flaming torches onto the bonfire and ... Read more
Christmas Parties 2016!
We've had two lovely Christmas parties this year - 70 grown-ups gathered to eat, drink, dance and play charades on 10th December. Then on Sunday 18th at total of 14 children were treated to crown-making, party games, tea and a visit from Santa followed by the Nativity Story told by way of ... Read more
BGs’ visit to Eastbridge Willows again – November 2016
The Beech Gardeners set off again in two cars to Crondall to visit Anna Kirsch at the Eastbridge Willows to learn how to weave willow wreaths for Christmas. There were 9 of us in all and Anna demonstrated how to weave the basic wreath, using green and decorative orange and yellow willow twigs. ... Read more
Record turnout for Village Bonfire last Saturday!
We had a brilliant bonfire and fireworks event on Saturday. Around 300 people came to join in the fun, which for once took place on a fine evening. A total of 29 volunteers organised into in four teams worked really hard this year to make sure everyone had a good, safe time. It all made 2016's ... Read more
Beech Village Summer Show – September 2016
On Saturday 17 September the Beech Gardeners held their third Summer Show. Below are all the photos taken at the Show - the tables showing all the fruit, vegetables, flowers, floral arrangements, cakes, quiches, jams, chutneys, handcrafts, paintings, photographs, etc etc. The list of winners is ... Read more
‘Brains of Beech’ Quiz Night with the Bembridges!
5 teams battled it out to take the trophy on 8th October, all ending up within a few points of each other. At the end of a fun evening, the 'Defenders' emerged as winners by margin of half a point. This team featured the same line-up as the winners of last October's quiz, so with two in a row ... Read more