The Society History

Below you can see the schedule for the first Timsbury Flower Show. It took place on Saturday 1st September 1962 and was held at Timsbury Secondary School which is now St. Mary's Primary School. It makes interesting reading especially the childrens section where it looks as if the essay ond poetry classes coincided with the subjects the chidren were learning. A total of 57 entries for class 142 and a further 24 entries for class 138 reflected the enthusiasm of the children at that time. Those were the days, I wonder if we can get them back, maybe with a little co-operation with the school?

 

 

I can only go back to 1983 when the total membership of the Society was 17 and they were all on the committee. The sole aim of the committee was to run the annual Flower Show and at that time, due to the high cost of running the show, the committee were considering not having the marquee and making do with Conygre Hall only. There were no monthly meetings, no talks, no trips out and no Spring show, all that came a bit later. I moved to Timsbury from Stockwood, Bristol in May 1983 and Stockwood had a thriving Horticultural Society. After talking to the committee and contacting the Stockwood Horticultural Society Chairman I took Fred Box and Terry Webber to a meeting there to show them how monthly meetings were run. Not long after that Timsbury members attended a meeting at Stockwood to take part in an entertaining gardening quiz.

This started the ball rolling and monthly meetings were organised with good quality speakers. One of the first was Dr. Chris Lovell who spoke on bulbous plants in the Middle East. Sponsorships were arranged, advertising carried out and gradually membership increased. One year a mass planting of spring bulb was carried out in front of the bungalows in the Avenue.