Bewdley Bridge Community Magazine
October 2025 - Issue No. 38
Bewdley Museum’s Georgian Weekend - more inside this month’s Bumper Issue…
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This could be a very good year for mushrooms and toadstools if we have su ffi cient rain! A period of heavy rain after dry weather usually stimulates the growth of the variously-shaped and coloured fruiting bodies which we see on the forest floor and out in the meadows. The greater part of the organism consists of a network of fungal threads called hyphae growing through the soil, dead wood and leaves. The network is called mycelium and a specialist in the study of fungi is a mycologist. Mycologists have recently made some astounding discoveries about fungi and their importance to the ecology of many other species. The most startling is that by far the largest living organism in the world is an example of the fungus Armillaria solidipes (a species of honey fungus) which extends for about 4 square miles in the Malheur National Forest of Oregon. DNA checks have proved that this is all one organism and it is estimated to be from 2000 to 8000 years old. Unfortunately it is a killer of coniferous trees, travelling through the soil by means of strong black ‘bootstraps’ by which it infects other trees’ own root systems. I have found these bootstraps in parts of my garden and lost a very attractive crab apple tree to honey fungus. I have only myself to blame for introducing it via picturesque logs and stumps. Fortunately the relationships between trees and fungi are usually more benign and beneficial. Fungi cannot photosynthesise, absorbing nutrients and water directly from their surroundings and most notably from dead matter. However, many have evolved to form a close
association with trees where they benefit from the sugars produced by the tree and the trade-o ff for the tree is a more e ff ective system for gathering minerals from the soil and filtering out heavy metals. This co-operation of the fungal mycelium with tree roots results in an extensive ‘root’ system which can link one tree with another over large areas. Particular fungi may be fairly specific in their choice of host tree. The Oak Milkcap, one of about 50 species of milkcap found in the Wyre Forest, is shown in the photo: the ‘milk’ which gives it its name oozing from the damaged gills. It is, I believe, exclusively associated with oak trees, whereas, for instance, the Fiery Milkcap grows under Hazel, Fly Agaric under birch and Slippery Jack under Scots Pine. Local gourmets may be rather sad to learn that edible tru ffl es cannot grow in the Wyre Forest’s acidic soils, so plans to train up the dog or pig as a tru ffl e-hunter would get us nowhere. I won’t get into the tricky subject of whether or not di ff erent fungi are edible: after an allergic reaction a few years ago after eating a Common Pu ff ball I prefer to steer clear of them all.
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Dr Jenny Frow BEM is well known to very many people in Bewdley, having been their GP for many years, and also through her contributions to many other aspects of Bewdley Life over the years. We asked her if she could recount her life story in her own words… I was born in North Wales to a cricket loving father from Yorkshire and a Welsh farmer's daughter whom he met when teaching Geography at the local Grammar School. It was perhaps fortunate I was a girl as my mum might have been sent to Yorkshire for the birth were it not for the war as only men born in "God's Own Country" could play cricket for the county in those days! My early memories are of seeing a banana for the first time when about three, sweets coming off rationing, and staying Friday nights with my Nainie (Welsh for Nana). Looking back money was tight but it was the same for everyone and I grew up as an only child who was rather spoilt by my Nainie. I went to school 5 miles away on the local bus and at home I helped collect eggs from our hens and feed the couple of pigs we kept. I cleaned out the hen house for my pocket money and had a pet cockerel, a handsome Rhode Island Red I called Charlie Chaplin and who rode around on my shoulder like a parrot. My parents played tennis and badminton, and my father was involved with the cricket club. I used to go down and ‘help’ on practice nights by fielding and was sometimes allowed to bat in the nets. I later played at my secondary school and
university and went with my father every summer holiday to watch the Test Match at Headingley while visiting his sisters. I passed the entrance exam for the local girls' boarding school and went there as one of the minority day girls. I loved it particularly when I realized we played sports every afternoon! Hockey, lacrosse, tennis and cricket were a huge part of my life and I ended up captain of lacrosse and a school prefect, I was an all-rounder at academic subjects and at seventeen had no idea what I wanted to do until one day my father said his golf partner's wife was a doctor and would I like to meet her? I had no idea women could do medicine, and she encouraged me to apply for medical school. I was accepted at London University where I spent two years doing preclinical at King's College in the Strand followed by three years at St George's Hospital which was partly at Hyde Park Corner and partly in Tooting. For the first three years I lived in a hostel near Regent's Park and soon got to know central London well. We worked hard but also enjoyed ourselves although most of us only went out on a Saturday evening to student dances known as hops.
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Women medical students were only 2-5% of the annual intake although St George's was more generous and took 10%! It is fair to say we did not feel discriminated against in any way by staff or fellow medics, although some nurses saw us as opposition on the boyfriend scene... however, we felt it was necessary to be as good as, preferably better than, the boys! It was at a mutual friend's birthday party that I met Roger during my first year. He was a dental student with no eye/ball co- ordination, and I was someone who had no interest in music, an unlikely match but it worked for us! We were married in Wales in deep snow in early December 1966.It was so bad that 4 friends from London never got further than Cannock Chase, and it has never snowed again on December 3rd since then! Three years as a junior doctor in London followed. The arrival of my first pay cheque was exciting, all £33 of it for the month! Alternate nights and weekends on call was the norm and I loved my paediatrics and obstetrics stints.
Association would only see you if you were married or had a wedding date in the next 6-8 weeks, and this was in the sixties! One of my friends went to Woolworths and bought a brass curtain ring and turned up at a different clinic! I worked part time in general practice in Worcester for 7 years. It was impossible to work in hospitals if one was married with a child, so my dreams of paediatrics were a non-starter. I did my training as a GP when it was new, and I was the first person in the country to complete it half time over 2 years rather than one full time year. When the opportunity of joining Bewdley Medical Centre arose I jumped at it. Roger was very supportive, his only condition being that we bought a dishwasher! The boys were 7 and 4 in 1976 and I could not have considered it without him. Life was hectic as a full-time partner with a 1 in 5 on call rota but all my partners and everyone else were hugely supportive and I loved working in this community. I joined the tennis club after a few years, and the club became and still is a constant presence in my life. I enjoyed the social side as well as playing matches and found it a great way to relax. In due course I served as ladies' captain and was chairman of the committee for many years. I then was honoured to be elected President for a five-year term in 2012. During this time the boys grew up and left for university and then found jobs in London. Then as a family we experienced the shock and sadness of Roger's sudden and totally unexpected death when they were in their early twenties. He was 52. I can only be thankful he saw them grow up and that they got to know him not just as children but as adults too. I also had reason to be so grateful that I lived in this wonderful town that is Bewdley,
We moved to Worcester with a 6-week- old baby for Roger to join a practice and I found myself doing Family Planning clinics in odd places such as Church Halls as there was no NHS service then. Even the enlightened Family Planning
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Roger died, partly as a back-up when I can no longer play tennis and partly to try and keep my brain polished. Looking back to those early days of isolation seems surreal. If it were possible I had an easy lockdown with two dogs to walk each day and other dog walkers to have a distanced chat with. I have had dogs since I was a teenager apart from 8 years of university and hospital jobs. Since the seventies there were always two and occasionally three, the vast majority being golden retrievers, and they are great company with a welcome whatever mood one is in, and I certainly wouldn't be out walking twice a day in all weathers without them. The last three I rehomed as mature dogs as I decided after my last puppy 15 years ago they were very hard work! Having to look after them saw me through the aftermath of losing Roger too. In 2022 out of the blue I was awarded the
LTA's National Volunteer of the Year award having "won" the County and then Regional nominations. I had no idea that I had been put forward! It involved a presentation in London and an invitation to the Royal Box at Wimbledon! Seeing what went on behind the scenes was as good as the tennis! The icing on the cake was the presence of Roger Federer and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge. Then I was honoured to be awarded the British Empire Medal in the next New Year's Honours List and there ensued a presentation at Worcester Guildhall with friends and family present as well as an invitation to a Buckingham Palace Garden Party, lovely, but very, very, wet! I now have been playing pickleball for nearly 3 years along with my tennis and can recommend it, not least as I shall be able to carry on longer than tennis and also as it is mainly an indoor sport. I also have joined the local U3A as it is so important to keep refreshed. Looking back, I have had a happy life despite the ups and downs along the way and can honestly say I enjoyed my 25 years as a GP. One never knew what was coming next and in what other job would you find yourself examining a newborn then following this with a visit to an octogenarian?
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Monday 6th October 8:00pm. Green Drinks at Bewdley Rowing Club "The world will be saved by musicians; artistes; performers, rather than by environmentalists’ A challenging statement but maybe people are tiring of being preached at by environmental activists with messages of doom and despair? We will discuss the role that the Arts and culture can play in mending the prevailing divisions in Society and the challenges of trying to ensure a positive future for our environment, our communities and our descendants. Expect lively discussions, a range of opinions and perspectives and a supportive atmosphere. Oh, and a well-stocked bar with local beers etc.
repair to bring our communities together, reduce our impact on the planet, learn new skills and so much more. Whether you’re a repairer, community organiser, tinkerer, maker, repair business, campaigner or a fan of fixing, there are lots of ways to join in as well as bringing tems for repair at the Repair Cafe. When software updates stop coming, perfectly good hardware is being discarded, undermining our community’s e ff orts and feeding the growing mountain of e-waste. Our friends at Numlock Solutions (formerly known as The Zoo) at the top of Load Street will be around to help you if you are a ff ected by the end of support for Windows 10 for example. Coping with heatwaves! As I write this, it is raining outside and temperatures have fallen. Did we really have a series of heat-waves just a few weeks ago? Adapting to heatwaves was the theme for our Green Drinks session in August. We learnt that some heat pumps can also be used as air- conditioning units during hot weather, reducing capital costs, but still using electricity. Perhaps better to adopt passive measures such as drawing the curtains and keeping windows closed during the day and opening windows at night. Better still, external shutters or blinds on south facing windows. Longer term measures such as planting many more urban trees, designing buildings with passive stack ventilation (Kidderminster Library and Bishops Wood Centre are local examples) and learning from Mediterranean countries by having narrow streets with tall buildings and oriented to give shade in summer. We will return to this theme when we encounter inevitable heatwaves in future summers, when the very young and the elderly will be particularly vulnerable.
Saturday 18th October 10:00am – 1:00pm Bewdley Repair Café At the Wheatsheaf Rooms, 21 Load St, Bewdley DY12 2AE. (behind the Bewdley Institute). A change of location as our regular venue at St Georges Hall is in use for the Bewdley Festival. Our Repair Café session coincides with International Repair Day. Organised by The Open Repair Alliance, https://openrepair.org International Repair Day is an annual celebration for everyone who makes repair happen in their communities around the world. Every October they celebrate the power of
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Have you ever wondered what Town Twinning is all about? Did you know that Bewdley has two Twin Towns, Vellmar in Germany and Fort Mahon Place in France? Since Covid, Bewdley and District Twinning Association has just been ticking over with a few members maintaining contact with the towns. We are now ready to get going again. At the end of August,15 Members of Bewdley and District Twinning Association visited our Twin Town, Vellmar in Germany. We were met with warmth and friendship from the people of the town and their o ffi cials. Vellmar is celebrating its 50th year since incorporation as a town and 1250 years since the first mention in historical documents. To mark these anniversaries the Council invited their Twin Towns of Bewdley, Zell am See, Austria and St Marton, Hungary to join in a weekend of
friendship, hospitality and entertainment. Folk dancers from Austria and Hungary dazzled with their dances and magnificent costumes. Duo John and Bill and Members of the Wyre Forest Climate Choir entertained with a selection of songs and received a rousing response from the audience much to the choir’s delight.
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At the Civic Reception, Bewdley Mayor, Nicole Harper gave a very well received speech in German which brought cheers from the audience. Many of the group were taking part in their first visit to Vellmar, and were struck by the warmth and friendship they felt from the people and the generosity of the town of Vellmar. Nicole Harper, Bewdley Mayor said “I shall always treasure the extraordinary kindness shown to us by the people of Vellmar and the warmth of their welcome. It is a joy to be reminded that people of di ff erent countries and cultures can so easily become friends.” Now back in Bewdley, we would like to encourage others to join us and experience the wonderful welcome and friendship that we received as well as the
opportunity to reciprocate with a similar welcome when Vellmar visits us once again. Contact Janice Bell by emailing j_c_bell@talk21.com for further details
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Well, it’s good to be back after a little summer break from the Baton and this month there is plenty to write about. First of all of course, October is Festival month in Bewdley… and I am delighted to say that the three main live music nights have pretty much all sold out. However, there are still tickets available for Mark Bebbington’s piano recital at St Anne’s church on Saturday 25th at 6pm. If you haven’t already seen it, the full programme is as follows: Beethoven: Sonata in C minor op. 13 Pathetique Cesar Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Interval John Ireland: Three Pastels A Grecian Lad The Boy Bishop Puck’s birthday Poulenc: Improvisation no 15 Homage a Edith Piaf and Suite Napoli Liszt/Wagner: ‘Liebestod’ from Tristan and Isolde Liszt/Verdi: Concert Paraphrase on ‘Rigoletto’
The other evening that might well appeal to music fans is with Joe Boyd on Tuesday 14th. Boyd has been a record producer for 40 odd years including producing albums for Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Taj Mahal and many others across a real spectrum of global music. He was also founder of the influential Transatlantic Record Label. These intimate evenings are always extremely insightful, so expect a fascinating selection of anecdotes and stories. I know many of you have been enjoying the Music for Sanctuary series on Sunday afternoons and October sees the final concert of this series with Anna Downes and Tony Bridgwater (The Himley Duo) completing the programme with a selection of English music from Andrew Downes, Stanford and Arnold. On top of that, on Friday 24th, you’ve got a choice of the folk options - either Banter in St George’s Hall or the next Shire Folk o ff ering with Robbie Cavanagh at St Anne’s. October is going to be a busy month! Looking a little further ahead into November, on Saturday the 8th, Bewdley Choral Society will be performing Karl Jenkins “The Armed Man - a Mass for Peace” in St Anne’s. We last performed this in November 2019 to a sellout audience. We augmented the music with lighting and imagery and we shall be doing the same again this time. Now more than ever, a work which recounts the horrors of descent into war and yearns for peace instead is alarmingly relevant and on the 80th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war, it will be a privilege to perform this exceptionally poignant and moving work once again.
So, a super programme with plenty of variety and a real blockbuster finish. To have a pianist of Mark’s standing playing in Bewdley is really quite special.
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The Beales Corner Floodworks are o ffi cially complete, and the Bridge is open… at least until Severn Trent start their works in October! A ceremony was held on 12th September to mark the completion of the project, with the defences o ffi cially opened by Mark Garnier MP. Our thanks to Cllr. Colin Billett for his candid photographs at the ceremony, first featured on the Garden Kitchen cafe Facebook page.. We also include some photographs of Bewdley Museum’s colourful Georgian weekend on the 20th & 21st of the month, also featured on our front cover.
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October 9th brings Pierce Brosnan back to the Bewdley screen in the completely di ff erent role of a Western lawman in 1870’s Montana. He’s joined in The Unholy Trinity by Samuel L Jackson as an enigmatic gunslinger. It’s a story of revenge, principally, but it’s not a straightforward ‘revenge thriller’. The motives of the various characters are more complex and the result is a thought- provoking, engrossing entertainment.
Bewdley community cinema returned on September 4th with a Steve Coogan film and it was gratifying to have a nearly full house for an apparently lightweight story of a man and his penguin that actually covered serious themes. The audiences for all the September films were very healthy. We’re heading in the right direction but with still some way to go before we are running at pre-Covid levels. At this time of year our thoughts turn to what films to show at Christmas. The obvious thing is to follow cinema tradition and show It’s a Wonderful Life, but we’d prefer not to follow the pack. So, for something di ff erent … ballet. We have booked a screening of the Royal Ballet’s Nutcracker – Peter Wright’s version from 2018, described as a timeless interpretation of the Christmas classic. It’s spectacular, magical and enchanting – a treat for all ages. The dancing is breath-taking, the set is stunning and Tchaikovsky's instantly recognisable music is synonymous with Christmas. We have scheduled it for Friday December 19th with an early start time so that school-age children can come along. Tickets will be priced accordingly, please follow us on Facebook for further details @BewdleyCinema Turning to October, our first film is Four Letters of Love (12) on October 2nd. A must-see for the captivating performances by Pierce Brosnan and Helena Bonham Carter and the on-screen chemistry between them. It’s an adaptation of the bestselling novel by Niall Williams, set in cinematically photogenic sweeping Irish scenery, that explores themes of fate, faith, and love.
The only complexity in Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning on October 23rd is in following the plot! The franchise is famous for fast action pacing and its spectacular stunts and these are the best yet. It’s a massive ego- trip for Tom Cruise who inhabits the character of Ethan Hunt for, what is billed as, the final time. The last film in October (on the 30th) is Sorry, Baby . This successfully brings o ff the feat of tackling a harrowing subject while, at the same time being funny and warm. Already rated by some critics as one of the best films of 2025, it’s the story of how a woman, with the help of her best friend, navigates life in the shadow of a sexual assault. An eclectic mix of films for October then, and the prospect of the ballet at Christmas. Cinema in Bewdley is alive and well!
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6257 patients called and queued to speak to our team, and of those we answered 91.8% along with 4233 online requests. Thanks to the hard work of our reception team, on average our patients waited 2 minutes and 31 seconds for their call to be answered. DON’T FORGET TO BOOK IN FOR YOUR FLU VACCINATION As we head into a busy time of year our sta ff will work hard to continue to provide the best possible care for our community. There are lots of ways you can manage your health and help support us through the busy winter months. This includes using the NHS app, Pharmacy First and knowing when you should contact us. What you can do with the NHS App •
Looking after yourself this winter Winter is often a time for coughs, colds and flu and whilst it is rotten to feel poorly, the information on the opposite page can help you to look after yourself and your family and guides you when to seek help. Viral infections don’t get better with antibiotics. It is important that we only use antibiotics when they are really needed so we don’t contribute to antibiotic resistance, which makes it much more di ffi cult to treat bacterial infections in the future. Instead, for viral infections, focus on rest, hydration, and over-the-counter remedies to alleviate symptoms.
order repeat prescriptions and nominate a pharmacy where you would like to collect them book and manage appointments including online consultations view your GP health record to see test results, recent consultations, immunisation record and letters from other healthcare teams eg hospital clinics
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What can the NHS Pharmacy Team Help you with? Did you know your local pharmacy can help you with a huge list of problems and help to advise when you need further medical advice? There is also a programme called Pharmacy First where, for some simple conditions such as tonsillitis, impetigo, sinusitis and urine infections you can been seen and assessed by your local pharmacist with treatment prescribed directly by them. When you send in a triage request our care navigators will let you know if this is an option for your care. Thank you for your patience and continued support of the surgery.
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