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September 2021 September 2021

FRIENDS OF SALISBURY CATHEDRAL BRIANTSPUDDLE AND AFFPUDDLE
NEWS
Secret Gardens of the Close and
Green Fair

The Friends of Salisbury Cathedral’s Secret Gardens BRIANTSPUDDLE COMMUNITY GROUP
of the Close event returns in September and this
year there’s a new attraction.
Saturday Coffee Shop
The event, which enables the public to visit
gardens in Salisbury Cathedral Close that are The Community Group will be
normally hidden from view, will include a green fair running the Coffee Shop at the
comprising a dozen stalls with an eco-friendly Briantspuddle Village Hall on
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theme. Saturday mornings from 4
September onwards opening at
Secret Gardens of the Close & Green Fair takes 10am till 12 noon with proper
place on Sunday September 12 from 1pm to 5pm. coffee, all your favourite cakes
and, of course, delicious bacon
As well as touring some of the larger gardens in the
Flashback to 2019 and a visitor Close and De Vaux Place, visitors can enjoy tea rolls. Lots of lively chatter, papers
enjoys a stroll in one of the ‘secret to read, plenty catching up to do
gardens of the Close’. and cake on the lawn of South Canonry, the home - we look forward to seeing you
of the Bishop of Salisbury.
there.
The green fair stalls include Harnham Water Meadows Trust, Plantlife and Wiltshire
Wildlife Trust, whose representatives will be explaining what they do and how the
public can get involved. Salisbury Florilegium Society will be hosting an exhibition Book-Let
of members’ botanical paintings in the Medieval Hall and musical entertainment
will be provided by recorder group Close Consort, whose members will be playing The Book-Let, which has continued to open whenever possible throughout the
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in a number of the gardens. pandemic, has now settled back into its usual slot on the 2 Saturday of each
month, opening from 10 am to 12 noon in conjunction with the coffee shop.
Friends’ chairman Duncan Glass said: Thanks to donations of plenty of ‘new’ books we now have a wonderful selection
“The Friends are very much looking for you to choose from.
forward to holding our Secret Gardens
of the Close afternoon following the Do come along and give us a try, it’s still just 25p for each book borrowed and all
disappointment of having to cancel the money raised goes to the Village Hall.
last year due to the Covid-19 Angie Talbot, Briantspuddle Community Group
restrictions. “The green fair will
enhance this popular event and we
look forward to welcoming everyone
to our flagship event.”

Tickets for Secret Gardens of the Close
& Green Fair are £10 (under-16s free),
and are available at the event. Time for tea. Tea and cakes will be available at
South Canonry, the home of the Bishop of Salisbury.
For more details, contact the Friends’
office on 01722 555190. Pictures copyright Katharine Shearing.
Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle website: www.briantspuddle.info

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