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Green Flag Award, Westminster 2009
At the recent Green Flag Awards ceremony held in Bournemouth, Westminster proudly claimed 18 Green Flag Awards. This figure includes 5 new sites and a further cemetery.
Patrick Healy - Contract Manager (South), Steve Mills - Senior Contracts Manager (North & Westminster) and Trevor Davies - Cemetery Manager proudly holding one of the 18 Green Flags Awards for 2009/2010.
After all the hard work in the past few months, Continental Landscapes Ltd in Westminster, were rewarded with 18 Green Flag Awards at the recent ceremony held in Bournemouth. The total number of awards includes 5 new sites for 2009/2010.
East Finchley won Cemetery of the Year in 2007 and has held a Green Flag Award for 3 years.
New Signage and watering can holders at East Finchley Cemetery. |
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| Dutch War Graves, Mill Hill Cemetery. |
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| Hanwell Cemetery office and chapel. |
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On the North and South parks we retained our existing Green Flag Awards and added a further 4 for 2009/2010. The work adds a lot of pressure on management and the staff at a busy time of the year.
This year Pat's team in the South had the added pressure of completing the new Marble Arch bedding display and turfing. There is a lot of work involved getting a site up to Green Flag standard and maintaining those standards. Quite often we start a year before with the groundwork and improvements to the infrastructure of the park.
| Paddington Street Gardens before the storm. |
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This year judging day in Paddington Street Gardens was at 9am on a Monday morning. Over the weekend a strong storm passed over, resulting in the heaviest fall of plane tree seed ever recorded. It even made the BBC news that night. The seed of the plane tree is fluffy, itchy, falls in vast quantities and is very irritating.
We worked over the weekend in an effort to clear the seed fall, and at 8 am on the day we were ready. But nature had one last blow, so that by the time the judges arrived the seed was lying an inch deep on the ground. Fortunately the storm continued so the judges could see at first hand what we were dealing with.
| Ebury Square Gardens, 1st time entrant and successful. |
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| Green Flag Award judges at Porchester Square Gardens. |
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