So in he set up a wood shop to make sash windows and staircases. Buttle attributes his initial interest in beehives to his father, Harry, who died last year. Harry was a keen gardener who brought home leaflets on solar energy in the s when environmentalism was largely seen as an affectation.
He encouraged Buttle to keep an allotment for vines, peaches and strawberries. It also harnessed the joinery skills he had developed. Bees are particular creatures. Obsessive about making perfect, uniform hexagons of wax, they are equally fussy about the spaces they need to navigate inside their homes. Some of the credit must also go to an American called Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth from Philadelphia, who, in , patented a hive with vertically set frames for honeycomb.
Langstroth knew that bees required a gap of less than 1cm to move around between the frames — any more and they would reduce the excess space with honeycomb wax, a distracting effort — or worse still seal shut the whole void with propolis, a resinous glue and varnish gathered from the buds of trees. The optimal gap was found to be 8mm, and that remains standard a century and a half on.
Something amazing happened. Their flowering cherry tree, which had blossomed happily enough for 45 years, bore fruit for the first time. The garden burst into more vivid life. The bees were pollinating everything. He was smitten. The timbers Buttle brings to his workshop are red deal — a superior pine — and western red cedar. Cedar is also rot-resistant from a natural oiliness and you may choose not to paint it, but enhance its ruddiness with a non-toxic mineral oil. To construct the stacked boxes on a stand, he makes a bottom board with grooves for bee access.
Thurrock Adult Community College provides adult learning, offering opportunities for Thurrock residents to upskill and retrain with a wide range of part-time courses. From July , the college will start to realise its long-term ambition to level up access to learning by opening new localised learning hubs enabling residents to develop essential skills closer to where they live.
As well as classroom-based learning, t he college will also continue to offer online learning options which have proved popular over the past year with those people who need more flexibility to be able to study part-time.
This will result in all agencies having a greater understanding of what is going on in the community and an enhanced ability to tackle the issues most important to the public.
There are many advantages to working so closely with our blue light and local authority partners, while the investment also delivers better value for money.
The co-located emergency response centre will be a collaborative base from which the vital emergency services can provide an efficient response service and support for local residents. Fire and Rescue Service staff have moved into the new hub, which replaces the old fire station on The Ellers, Ulverston.
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