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  • started planting with flowers in 1892




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    started planting with flowers in 1892 
    Q11
    . It was unclear who actually owned the land, and this wasn’t
    settled until 20 years later, when the council took possession of it.
    You may have noticed the statue near one of the entrances. It’s of Diane Gosforth, who played a key
    role in the history of the park. Once the council had become the legal owner, it planned to sell the land
    for housing. 
    Many local people 
    Q12
    wanted it to remain a place that everyone could go to, to enjoy the
    fresh air and natural environment – remember the park is in a densely populated residential area. 
    Diane 
    Gosforth was one of those people, and she organised petitions and demonstrations 
    Q12
    , which
    eventually made the council change its mind about the future of the land.
    Soon after this the First World War broke out, in 1914, and most of the park was dug up and
    planted 
    with vegetables 
    Q13
    , which were sold locally. At one stage the army considered taking in over for troop
    exercises and got as far as contacting the city council, then decided the park was too small to be of use.
    There were occasional public meetings during the war, in an area that had been retained as grass.
    After the war, the park was turned back more or less to how it had been before 1914, and continued
    almost unchanged until recently. Plans for transforming it were drawn up at various times, most recently
    in 2013, though they were revised in 2015, before any work had started.
    The changes finally got going 
    in 2016 
    Q14
    , and were finished on schedule last year.


    TEST
    Street Play Scheme
    PRESENTER:
    My guest on the show today is Alice Riches who started the Street Play Scheme where she lives in 
    Beechwood Road. For those of you that don’t already know – Street Play involves local residents closing 
    off their street for a few hours so that children have a chance to play in the street safely. She started it in
    her own street, Beechwood Road, and the idea caught on, and there are now Street Play Schemes all
    over the city. So when did you actually start the scheme, Alice?
    ALICE: 
    Well, I first had the idea when my oldest child was still a toddler, so that’s about six years ago now – but it
    took at least two years of campaigning before we were actually able to make it happen. 

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