Verwood
and Three Legged Cross Twinning Association - UK
Please select the Verwood and Heathland Heritage Centre web sites or links below.
|
Please select the Verwood and Heathland Heritage Centre web sites or links below.
|
|
Select here for the report the Civic celebrations and the FLAGFEST celebrations in October 2007.
Select
here for the report on the visit in May 2007
Note the new web address for this Twinning Website is now "twinning.verwood.org".
The Association organises various social events and a summer outing for members and friends. At the 20th Anniversary of twinning with our French Town in 2004 Champtoceaux Avenue was officially named. There is also a Liederbach Drive and a Champtoceaux Green. Members visit our twin towns and receive French and German visitors every two to three years. You can also visit the sites of the two towns that Verwood is currently twinned with, Champtoceaux and Liederbach. The "Comite Cantonal de Jumelage de Champtoceaux" also has a site which you can visit. (see Links Page). The Tapestry given to Verwood by its twinned French Town of Champtoceaux during the visit in May 2005 is now framed and on display in the Verwood Heathland Heritage Centre, along with the large pot (see below), gifted by Liederbach in Germany to Verwood in 2003. Other gifts received in the past reside in the Verwood Library and the Council Offices.
Please
select the links below for the
For further information, or to join the "Verwood and Three Legged Cross Twinning Association" please contact: -
|
|
Send mail to
|
|
|
They
were greeted with a typically British welcome of
afternoon coffee, tea and cakes at 
On
Saturday evening hosts transported their guests
and themselves to 
with Pimms or orange
juice on arrival when music was provided by the 
Speeches were made and a gift from Champtoceaux was presented during the
interval in which Terry Bright (the current chairman of twinning),
confirmed to everybody that he would be resigning at the next AGM and
took the opportunity to introduce Clive Grove (the incoming chairman).
Other speeches were given by 
Our friends departed from the Potters' Wheel
Car Park at 05:30 hours on the12th of May for the ferry at
Portsmouth and eventual safe return to Champtoceaux at around
20:00
hours in the evening. 
On Saturday morning
most of the guests were
taken for a visit to the Hall & Woodhouse Brewery in Blandford St
Mary, followed by lunch at the Botany Bay Inne at Winterborne Zelston.
In the evening guests were welcomed with a glass of Pimms to the
superb surroundings of Remedy Oak Golf Club, where with their hosts they enjoyed an informal soirée.
Gifts were exchanged and speeches given by the Burgermeisterin of
Liederbach (Frau Eva Söllner), the Mayor of Verwood (Cllr Simon Gibson)
and the chairman of the Verwood Twinning Association (Mr Terry Bright)
as shown above. A buffet meal
was followed with entertainment by close harmony group Sodapops and a
chance for everybody to socialise..
Sunday was a “rest” day spent with hosts, but it started with
the official naming of Taunus Way, the previously anonymous road
connecting Black Moor Road to Liederbach Drive. Verwood Twinning
chairman Terry Bright thanked Verwood Town Council for facilitating the
adoption of this name before inviting the mayors of the twin towns to
unveil the name.
Early on Tuesday morning hosts took
their guests to their coach on the Hub car Park for a 6 a.m. departure
on their return journey to Liederbach. It had been a busy weekend, which the Germans found very interesting. And so we were
left with good memories and an invitation for a return visit in June
2013.
Durango,
Colorado USA - The Verwood Twinning Association
has been approached by a group from Durango about the possibility of
twinning. This is very early contact stages and it may not happen as a
lot of discussion still needs to be carried out.
At the moment this is in abeyance but may continue at a later date.
Currently there are no further updates as at Aug. 2011.
with questions
or comments about this web site.