The Beech Gardeners' Beech Village Show went beautifully. One of the judges, Ray Broughton, got caught up in the "suspicious package" problems on the M3 and took over 3 hours to get to us from Winchester. The other judges got on with the job; Karen Hawkins judged the food and produce and ... Read more
Super sellout October Quiz night!
Over a hundred villagers and guests joined in the ever-popular quiz evening in October. After a hard-fought contest between 13 teams, lucky table number 13 calling themselves the 'Square root of 81' emerged the winners. This brainy bunch was led by Ed Short, who was presented with the winners cup ... Read more
BGs’ summer picnic
This year's picnic was held at Kathy's house at Woodlawn, Medstead Road, Beech on Wednesday 2nd August. The weather was foul, rained all day and Kathy got her lounge ready for everyone to sit around drinking tea and eating scones, jam and cream. BUT people ... Read more
First new 100 Club winner with paella at July’s Social
Villagers who came to this month's Social feasted on a superb giant paella cooked by Dublin chef Juan Piastri. After dinner, Ursula and Brian Wagstaff were right there to witness their winning 100 Club ticket being pulled out of Saman's golden box. Here they are being congratulated by Hall ... Read more
Beech Summer Show – 23 September 2017
The Beech Gardeners are organising the third Beech Summer Show on Saturday 23 September 2017. There are 37 Classes to enter at 30p per Class and one entry only per class may be entered by each person. Click on the blue writing below to see the list of entries and the Terms & ... Read more
BGs – Alton Tree Walk – June 2017
The Beech Gardeners met up with Jim Dickinson for their 3rd Alton Tree Walk. Below is a short resume sent in by Sue Robinson. "We started at Jubilee Fields and went through Ackender Wood which was part of a large deer forest. In the photo gallery below there is a map showing where the ... Read more
BGs visit to Beechenwood Farm, Odiham on 3 May 2017
The Beech Gardeners visited Beechenwood Farm, Hillside, Odiham RG29 1JA on 3 May and the weather was kind to us. 15 of the BGs turned up and were presented with a map of the farm and we wandered around in groups. The bluebells were out and there was a lovely woodland walk with ... Read more
CANCELLED Roaring Twenties Summer Party 10th June – SO SORRY
The BVH Social Committee very much regrets the cancellation of this event, because we have not sold sufficient tickets to make the evening a success. We will write a piece in the Newsletter and try to get some feedback from people..…certainly, there are a lot of other events going on ... Read more
Ray Broughton visiting the BGs
Beech Gardeners were visited by Ray Broughton on Wednesday 5 April at Kathy's house, to give us one of his many talks. Ray's topic was "Gardening on Chalk", a subject that must be very close to the hearts of those of us Gardening in Beech. Ray has judged the entries at our Beech ... Read more
Beech Murder Mystery
Some 60 Beech residents and visitors enjoyed a Murder Mystery evening at Beech Village Hall on Saturday 11th February. A cast of eight guests selected from the audience took part in the three Act play entitled “Who Killed the Hotel Manager?” set at the Primrose Glade Hotel (2 stars) in Bilge on Sea, ... Read more