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'Friends of Sutton Park' - Friends Indeed!

16 March 2008         Category:  Sutton Park, St.Helens

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New sign and noticeboard welcoming visitors to Sutton Park, St.Helens

As Sutton Beauty in human form rested his weary bones on the bench in Sutton Park near the ice-age boulder on Saturday morning, he saw two twin girls dressed in matching pink having a whale of a time playing in a sea of daffodils, while their parents studied the splendid new noticeboard that the Friends of Sutton Park support group have recently had installed.

To his right, to the park's northern corner, two lads were fully occupied climbing a tree. "Hope they don't fall ", Sutton Beauty thought, remembering that St.Helens Hospital was, fortuitously, only yards away! It was, however, a pleasant scene which summed up what green open space is all about.

Sutton Park, Sutton St.Helens
Visitor after visitor, studied the notices on the ten foot high structure which has come from Sutton Ward Committee's environmental coffers. OK, it's only a noticeboard but it's physical evidence of the work being done by the park's recently-formed, support group who have converted a negative into a positive.

If you recall, the local community fought off plans in January 2007 to convert part of the public park, which was created in 1903, into a temporary car park. (See this post and this post). As a result, with Ward Committee and council support, the Friends of Sutton Park were founded last July. A bulb planting day with the kids in Robins Lane school took place in October and a new fence is being erected. I expect that the group, which meets in the Red Lion, have more improvements in mind.  

Friends of Sutton Park, Sutton, St.Helens
I've found obtaining information about the Friends of Sutton Park and publicising their activities quite difficult. Indeed a Google search for "friends of sutton park" reveals just this website's brief mention on our Sutton Park page. However, the group now have an excellent new website which you can visit HERE and an EMAIL contact address.

The next meeting of the group will be on April 1st (no fooling!) in the Red Lion at the corner of Robins Lane and New Street in Sutton, St.Helens at 7pm. All are welcome.

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