COPPICE ASSOCIATION North West
Info Board and Meetings
Last update : 11 March 2009
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"Bill Hogarth MBE : Coppice Merchant"
Bill was a former President of the Association.
The book he was writing when he died in 1999, edited by Alan Shepley, is available
for on-
FORTHCOMING MEETINGS and EVENTS
of interest to coppice and greENwood Folk
Coppice Association's OWN
Meetings in Red,
North west-
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Products and Services Leaflet
The 2008 edition
is available. Please contact Secretary if you would like a copy.
Tuesday 24 March, 2009 start 7.30pm
EARTHBURN EVENING
(NO, we're not doing a burn, only talking about them)
Cumbria Grand Hotel, Grange over Sands (On the Lindale Road, a few hundred
yards east of the Railway Station)
Come and have a natter about this traditional charcoal making
method and learn about our recent attempts at it. Photographs, written information,
slides and video will be available. We may even talk about kiln and barrel
burns if we have time.
Food and drink is available from the bar beforehand.
Sunday 18 April
DAMSON DAY
Low Farm, Lyth Valley, Cumbria
We expect to be making a big effort this year for what was a most successful
event for us in 2008; we shall be joining with Wood Education Programme
Trust
who will be showing some of the results of their Woodland Recollections
Project in which quite a few CANW members have been involved.
www.woodlandrecollections.org
www.lythdamson.org.uk
Saturday & Sunday 15,16 August 2009
WEEKEND IN THE WOODS
Once again at Staveley in Cartmel using Chapel House Wood.
The expected programme offering is: Hazel Hurdles, Longbow Making, Pole
Lathe, Stick Chairs, Working with Willow, The Brilliance of Birch
Use the website for fuller details as they are confirmed and to get an early
copy of the booking form.
www.coopicenorthwest.org.uk
Thursday 10 September 2009
WESTMORLAND COUNTY SHOW
Come along to the Wood and Forestry Section (in which we shall be much involved)
and also join in the official launch of the Cumbria Wood and Forestry Festival
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a full twelve months' of 'woody' events across the county. Further details
will be posted at
www.cwff.woodlandrecollections.org
as they develop.