I WOULD like to thank Sylvia Scolding for the wonderful photo of the wildflowers on the Tesco bank or should we be calling it the ‘Ring of Thorns’ bank in the future?

They have been a real feature on the bank over the last month and I would like to take this opportunity to thank Rob Henderson, the manager at Tesco, for agreeing to give Thornbury in Bloom permission to plant the hawthorn trees and sow the wildflower seeds there. The bank has now transformed that part of the town.

When, way back in November last year, Rob asked me if there was anything that Tesco could do to help Thornbury in Bloom I knew that Tony Sansum, a long-standing member of the Thornbury in Bloom committee, had long cherished the idea of planting a ring of thorn bushes to represent the origins of the name of our town, ‘a ring of thorns surrounding a settlement’ so I recognised that this was the chance. So, after a lot of planning and liaison with Tesco and other interested groups, we were able to make it happen. The rest, as they say, is history and we now have a wonderful legacy to the town from Thornbury in Bloom!

So please enjoy the thorn trees and flowers and thank Tesco and the Thornbury in Bloom team for ensuring that the area is an ongoing living reminder of the origins our town name.

Guy Rawlinson

Chairman of Thornbury in Bloom