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Tarmac has helped give Grays Town Park in Grays, Thurrock a new lease of life with a grant from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund.
The 130-year-old park had become neglected during recent times, but thanks to the hard work of local group, The Friends of Grays Town Park, it is gradually being returned to its Victorian finest, in the hope that many visitors will come to enjoy its gardens and a proposed new community café.
Grants from Thurrock Council, Riverside Community Big Local and a £10 000 award from Tarmac’s Landfill Communities Fund have enabled the gardens to be overhauled and major landscaping work to be carried out on the east side of the park. This will include removing dead trees, adding new plants to help create biodiversity to encourage local wildlife, and a clean-up of the large decorative rocks.
Accessibility improvements prepare UK Lace Museum for reopening WORDSLEY S Lace Guild has been able to create an accessible one-way route through its Audnam museum so it can open safely as Covid restrictions ease, thanks to a grant from an environmental trust. The Lace Guild, in the Glass Quarter, is the UK s largest lace organisation and hosts a large collection of lace and associated artefacts, plus a comprehensive library with information about the craft of lacemaking and its history. However, throughout the Covid-19 pandemic the museum’s small interior has made it difficult for the Guild to welcome its usual number of visitors due to social distancing requirements.
LOOKING ahead to the then imminent closure of Forthill Park in the centre of Enniskillen – now closed to the public until September for restoration works – The impartial Reporter popped around the corner from its offices recently to take a look at the historic ‘hidden jewel’ in the town. With the advantage of Lockdown restrictions and a completely empty park at that moment, the park visit provided a perfect time to take a quick photographic survey of the park before the £210,000 refurbishment works that are now under way. The works that are now under way until September will include conservation work on the striking Cole’s monument, that was first started in 1845 and completed in 1857.
Coun Ed Darling.
The group has been working with Coun Ed Darling and residents of the Appleby estate to secure funding to renew the play area.
A spokesman for Rennaisance Knaresborough explained: “This project has been running for just over a year with a fundraising charge supported by Harrogate Borough, North Yorkshire County and Knaresborough Town councils, Knaresborough Lions, Rotary and Relief in Need.
“We have now secured 10 per cent of the final cost of renewing the play area.”.
An application has been submitted to the FCC Landfill Communities Fund for the remaining 90 per cent costs.
The group is eligible to apply due to the area’s proximity to the Allerton Waste Recovery Park.