The speaker at the May meeting was Peter Lavis who talked about the Lost Gardeners of Heligan, a social history project of WW1.
Heligan was owned by the Tremaynes for about 450 years. In 1914 the squire was Jack Tremayne who employed 23 garden staff. The house itself was turned over to the Royal Flying Corps to be used as a convalescent home for WW1 victims. By June 1917 only eight gardeners were left, the rest lost in the WW1 fighting. Jack found he could not live with the ghosts of Heligan and in 1921 left to live in Italy.
Firstly, thank you to those people who took the time to get in touch about how to increase our recycling rates. There were some very good ideas and they will all be fed into the system for consideration. One example of recycling I have only just heard about is that CORMAC are now able to recycle the chippings collected after surface dressing our roads. Considering the cost of sending anything to landfill these days, this must be a very good investment for council tax payers.
SHARE (South Hill Association for Renewable Energy)
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