Art in the Park teamed up with local health champions Zest,
for a series of interdisciplinary and open access workshops based around
personal heritage and the local area. The participants used words, photography
and collage to create works that were displayed during the final celebration.
I lived on Parkwood Springs
We built an air raid shelter
Bombs dropped on Pickering Road
My neighbour had a garden
The most beautiful garden to be seen
He used the night slops
His lawn was the best, so green
and beautiful roses grew around the fence
Barbara Warsop
Bikes out the city
Top Gear Dawes to Clumber ParkBack to industry
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I see the pram place now
viewed from out the hooda lollipop for me –
a Silver Cross moment
and family allowance for all
Cuthbert Bank Pigeon Lofts, Barbara Warsop
Endless blue skies
The smell of burning woodWalnuts fall from above
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The river ran quick
From cherry tree maze they passLike chattering birds
Strange but familiar greetings
The honeymoon period repeats
I remember the TV
a new-fangled invention
everyone came to watch
no washing machine
boiling nappies on the stove
till they came clean
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First job at fifteen
was working in the steelworks.
Remembering the soot,
face was clean when I left home
but sooty when I got to work
Linda Charlton
