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Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
The Choir - Uplands School Choir singing a medley of Edwardian songs and the "Harry Patch" song by Polly Bolton. "If I had my way" is a song based on quotes from Harry Patch, the longest lived 'Tommy' from the First World War.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Urban Orchard Project (www.theurbanorchardproject.org)
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Community groups and local businesses represented for a circular economy and recruitment drive for community action, e.g. Urban Orchard Project, Acorn Communities, Friends of Thimblemill Brook, Two Towers Brewery, Maidens Fayre and The Real Junk Food Project.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Dr Alan Bale, a professional forager who runs Sustainable Life, engaging visitors at the Grand Community Day Out.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Friends of Thimblemill Brook
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Children make their vision of Thimblemill Brook 100 years from now.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Albert Smith's Ubuntu Kitchen serving soup from around the world and bread baked in a "dry stack brick oven".
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Post cards created by residents to illustrate our diversity as a community. The boy is lookinfg at a Belgium refugee medal that represents those who were taken into our community 100 years ago.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Over 1100 visitors attend the event.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Vesta Tilly impersonator. (Vesta Tilly was a cross-dressing music hall entertainer 100 years ago.)
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
Urban Orchard Project apple tasting list of favourites.
Grandma's Apple Crumble at Thimblemill Library
"Cross Pollination" - Filipe Molina from Food Forest Brum watching our Foraging Film at the event created by Sustainable Life, Salt Road and Countershade.