The latest new city project is a Sculpture Trail created by the City Council to take residents and visitors on a walk around the city to see and learn the history of old statues plus the new sculptures created by local artists. World famous and city born, Walenty Pytel a renown metal sculptor has created a pair of swans on the banks of the River Wye and by the Cider Museum a Kingfisher with a minnow in its mouth. The trail has a booklet, available in the Town Hall and a te

Blackfriars Rose Gardens is Hereford’s most historic gardens; set in the grounds of the ruins of the 12th century Blackfriars Monastery . The rose garden was planted in 1964 to mark the century of the Hereford and West of England Rose Society. For decades it was cared for the county council but the upkeep ended with austerity and the gardens were abandoned. Two years ago Anne Harbour set up the Friends of Blackfriars Rose Gardens, with the support of Hereford in Bloom, hun