Family fun event from 10.00-1.00 pm on Saturday 25th August.
Make this part of a fun-filled day. Set up your Garvald Show exhibits on Friday night or Saturday morning at the village hall, pop down to the Haddington 700 Medieval Play event, then return to Garvald Show for the pet show, prize winner announcements and tea and cakes in the orchard!
We now have lovely new display boards crying out to show photographs at the Village Show next Saturday – see below. A massive thanks to Graham Barnes for design and production. Remember photographs should be printed no larger than A5, unmounted, with or without a border. Here are the classes:
Time to get printing!
A reminder that Garvald Fun Day is this Saturday. All welcome! Come and join in the fun.
Gifford Flower Show is this weekend, 18th/19th August. Come along on Saturday from 2.00 – 8.00 p.m. and Sunday 9.00 – 4.00 p.m. As well as the Flower Show competition classes, there will be a Scarecrow competition, various craft stalls, face painting, teas in the Village Hall, plant sale etc. This year the Rotary Club are running a children’s dog show on the Green behind the Marquee on Saturday afternoon.
Full details are on www.giffordhorti.org.
A reminder that the next meeting of Garvald and Morham Community Council will be on Monday 20 August at Morham Village Hall at 7pm.
Sunday 9th September, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Join East Lothian Council Archaeology Service and the Friends of Garvald Church for a guided tour of the historic church and graveyard. We will explore the hidden history of this beautiful building and examine gravestones to uncover the stories that they can tell. We will also discuss the plans to restore the church and create a heritage hub for the village.
Free. Booking required.
For more information and to book a place visit: https://www.eastlothian.gov.uk/archaeologyfortnight
Garvald Fun Day! Saturday 18th August, 1-4 pm in the park. All welcome!
Professor David Walsh of the Glasgow Centre for Population Health is visiting Dunbar to give a talk on health inequalities. It will be in Dunbar Parish Church Hall on 15 August 2018 at 6.30 pm. All are welcome to attend.
Gifford Flower Show – Sat/Sun 18th-19th August, Gifford Green
Garvald Village Show – Sat 25th August, Village Hall
It’s that time of year again! Garvald (67th) and Gifford (170th!) Shows are nearly upon us. See further details in the posters below. We are delighted to welcome George Anderson back to Garvald to judge the horticultural categories for a second year. Also new for this year: “Anything goes” – bring something along that you have made, baked or grown for the display table (non-competitive). We look forward to seeing you there!
GHS Committee.
Last year, the Garvald to Gifford core path (236) between Garvald Mains and the Donolly reservoir was upgraded, with fences installed to separate the path from the fields in which cattle graze and a bridge built to replace the ford across the Papana water.
Also, the path along the embankment on the NW side of the Donolly was cleared and although it is not to the same standard as the core path (220) on the SE side, it is now possible for a reasonably agile person to do a circuit of the reservoir. However, it is still fairly difficult to walk in a couple of places where trees are growing on the embankment and at the South-West end where the embankment has been washed away.
If you are interesting in regularly using this walk and would like further improvements to be made to the path, please get in touch using the contact form so that we can inform the East Lothian Countryside Volunteer Path Wardens. If there is enough interest from the community, then it might be possible to arrange for improvements made to this section of the walk. Thank you.