Friends of Telford Town Park are celebrating their 20th anniversary with the volunteers set to host a special exhibition.
The Friends of Telford Town Park at a celebration with His Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant Anna Turner and Mayor of Telford councillor Raj Mehta
But the group is still going strong and in their 20th year this year, they are giving an update on all the progress they’ve made with a specialist display on the first floor of Southwater Library in Telford Town Centre from September 15 to 29, sponsored by the Southwater Event Group. It is no surprise that 20 years of hard work has brought the Friends three awards from Fields in Trust, the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service and a hand in securing Telford being voted the UK’s Best Park in 2015 and Best Park in the West Midlands on a number of occasions.
The group wanted the 450 acres of play area and woodland, lakes and open scrub land not to be lost with the development of Telford New Town.The exhibition of the evolution of the group features successes such as preserving and protecting a local nature reserve, the Chelsea and Maxell Cherry Gardens, overseeing the opening of the Twin Tracks, an archeological dig to uncover Stone Row house foundations and the Tarslag works and rebuilding the access bridge across to The Crannog at Grange Pool.
They’ve also overseen the ‘Stream of Life’ statue and Telford’s time capsule being moved into the Chelsea Gardens due to the redevelopment of Southwater and they’ve replanted Southall Pool with new aquatic plants as well as creating a new sensory garden, a memory tree, a bug hotel, replacement bird boxes and hedge laying – an ongoing job – and restored fountains, water features and statues, such as the one of Anne Boleyn.
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