Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the Pockthorpe Community Group held on Tuesday 11 January 2022Members present: Billie Anna-Tony, Gary Champion, Alex Catt, Gill Wood, Rob Bakewell, Nik Thompson, Tony Moore, Vincenzo Poidomani, Olley Neale, Andy Smith-Dane, Liz Smith-Dane, Jessica Smith-Dane 1 PCG Constitution The meeting approved the Constitution but with an amendment to …
Happy New Year everyone! Sadly, we have had to change next Tuesday’s AGM to an online Zoom meeting because of the current Covid situation. The meeting will be at the same time – 7 30 pm Tuesday 11 January. The details for joining the meeting are: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87213864597…Meeting ID: 872 1386 4597Passcode: 493508 If you are …
Dec 2021 It’s been a busy couple of months and we have some really exciting news to share. We finally got the money for a defibrillator, planned for Mousehold Avenue on the outside of the Mousehold Hub. This is thanks to Ed Roy from Roys. He really kindly offered us £700 and Jayne Biggs who …
Newsletter- December 2021. Exciting news on defib! Read More »
We’ve got our first AGM scheduled for 7:30 pm Tuesday 11 January – in the Scouts Hut. Now that we are working with the Council and other organisations – we need to have a rule book and formally elect a committee and we’ll be doing this at the AGM. We will send out more info …
First AGM scheduled- Tuesday 11 January – in the Scouts Hut. Read More »
Planning the event & who we invited We got 500 flyers printed by Minuteman Press in Norwich, these were posted through homes around the two parks; Sandy park and Kett’s cave. The streets we targeted were Gertrude road, Balfour, Anchor Street, Silver Road, Mousehold Ave, Romany Road, Crome Road area. We shared the event on …
Last year a group of volunteers came together to try and improve the Council owned land at Kett’s Cave and Sandy Park and run community events to help more people to enjoy these open spaces. Our group is called the Pockthorpe Community Group – we’ve used the old name for our part of the City. …
Over the last few years we have seen plenty of evidence of hedgehogs scurrying around the Pockthorpe neighbourhood. They have been spotted on Dibden Road near the old Shoe Factory, on Balfour street near Ketts. On Morley Street around the passageways and in many other places too! Whilst I was leafleting only last week my …
As a group, we are proposing Norwich City Council removes these hazardous wire fences at Kett’s cave, NR3 1NH. They are historic and serve no purpose in my opinion. I have been told by local residents they have been crushed down to the ground since at least the 70’s. We found a skeleton of a …
Dangerous broken wire fences at Kett’s cave- volunteers needed Read More »
We reported our two street benches to be repaired in Jan 2021 to the Labour party, Norwich City Council and Norfolk county council. Sadly they never came to repair them. One of our lovely residents self-funded and repaired the bench on Mousehold Avenue. The broken bench on Crome Road is sponsored by the Labour party. …
Timeline and information on the derelict piece of land next to the Kett’s cave park. Owned by Norwich City Council housing Derelict, boarded up site since 2006 in Norwich, NR3. Crome Ward. Timeline 1883 Site of Ketts Cave lime kiln 1889 Mousehold Estate: Morley Street, Harcourt Street, Balfour Street, Anchor Street, Infantry Street, Dragoon Street …
