The Box is a major cultural and heritage attraction and archive, which opened in Plymouth’s city centre in September 2020. Its collection, formally the South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA), is the regional film archive for the South West of England, comprising the combined programme libraries of Westward Television and Television South West (TSW). It also includes a significant number of donated film collections dating back to the early 1890s.
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June Strawberries
Strawberry-picking and feasting is the order of the day
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Overview
Strawberry pickers spend June in the fields as the traditional month for strawberries in the UK. This makes the fruit a favourite of the Lawn Tennis Club at Wimbledon. The Strawberry Feast (Feaste) is held at the Methodist Church in Tamerton Foliot with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Frank Chapman.
A strawberry is actually not a fruit but part of the rose family and a strawberry has its seeds on the outside. In 1714 a French engineer observed native strawberries in Chile and Peru, and brought some back to cultivate in France where they grew much bigger and juicier leading to the creation of today’s common or garden strawberry. The strawberry season is short in the UK from the end of May to late July. In order to protect the plants during these months, layers of straw are spread around the plant giving rise to the name, strawberry.
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