Read our summer newsletter online here

This edition focuses on Buxton's Transport with contributions from BCA Member Ian Morris and an interview with Buxton Town Team's Tina Heathcote. We also have some thoughts on getting inspiration from nature during the lockdown from Frances Sussex and the latest on BCA's save our swifts project. Trevor Donald takes a look at excursions from Buxton in 1819. Lyn Noble writes about being inspired by Buxton's woodlands to paint and members can order prints of his woodland paintings.

BCA Summer Newsletter online version

E-Newsletter dated 5th August 2020 including a round up from some of our Groups

Link to BCA E-Newsletter

BCA have produced a video explaining how you can always be confident about your safety when visiting Poole's Cavern

With thanks to Charles Huff

Read about Poole's Cavern re-opening and other news

E-Newsletter 23rd July 2020

Places and Spaces decided to celebrate the sensory garden with readings of poems on a sunny Sunday afternoon

Butterflies of Buxton and how to identify them with Steve Orridge

Professor Richard Pattrick talks about Nuclear Waste and explores the question where should we put it?

A series of short videos about BCA's Woods

Bluebells, telling the story of Corbar Woods

Woodland Play, Dens and Lockdown

A Sea of Wild Garlic

Why we leave dead wood in our woods

How our woods heal themselves

Everything in a Woodland is interconnected

Elms - The great survivor and the tiny butterfly

Woodland Paths Making our Woodlands easier to walk in

The Peak District, Buxton's Gateway to the Peak District

Giving Woodpeckers a home

Finding a future for our plantations

Dragons and Damsels

Nuclear Waste - Where should we put it?

Buxton's Butterflies and how to identify them

BCA Members Event 7 pm Wednesday 27th May 2020 via Zoom

Alyson and Steve Phillips are delighted to present their short audio play

“The Paxtons and The Duke. A ménage a trois?”

Steve Phillips writes “We explore the motivation of these characters in this triangular relationship. We reveal its development, as Paxton's genius grows from gardener to millionaire, supported by the everlasting dedication of Sarah and His Grace.”

A short audio play followed by an interactive discussion about Paxton's contribution to the Buxton we see today.

Anyone can join just email communications@buxtoncivicassociation.org.uk to receive joining instructions.