Butterfly gates at West Park Long Eaton
By LEClare | Wednesday, July 04, 2012, 11:10
Local school children will join the Mayor of Erewash, Councillor Jennifer Hulls, for an official ribbon-cutting launch of the newly installed Butterfly Gates at West Park in Long Eaton on Monday 9 July at 2pm.
The ornate gates have been designed and made following a joint project between Erewash Borough Council, three Long Eaton schools and professional artists from the visual arts organisation Artblock.
Children from Brackenfield School and Specialist College of Cognition and Learning; English Martyrs Catholic Primary School and Parklands Infant and Nursery School were asked by Artblock to write down all the things they see on visits to West Park.
The pupils then created their gate designs using their words and images from school library books. A total of 100 final designs were voted on by the children and the top three choices were then used as the inspirations for a final design by artist Diana Shepherd.
The gates have been made by Dave Turner, a traditionally trained artist / blacksmith based in Belper who still uses centuries-old techniques.
Councillor Mike Wallis, Erewash Borough Council's Lead Member for Culture and Leisure, says:
"This has been an inspirational project, thoroughly enjoyed by the children and a great example of how our Pride in Erewash campaign is working with young people to generate interest in their borough and the importance of caring for it and looking after it for future generations.
"This project has also created something wonderful that can be enjoyed everyone - the wonderful Butterfly Gates, which provide a striking entrance to the Park. The children can be proud they have achieved the design they wanted and we hope will admire, enjoy and look after these very special gates."
The three schools involved in the arts project have all 'adopted' West Park as part of the Council's Pride in Erewash Adopt-a-Park scheme.
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Hi Bip, no sadly you can't post a picture in a response, you're quite right.
And no delete button either, but you can if you'd like report your own post and write in the box that it is your own post and explain why you'd like it removed. The moderation team would then remove it on your behalf.
By LEClare at 12:31 on 09/07/12
ReportAnd another thing, I see no delete button once a post is submitted, usually one gets the opinion if one doesn't like what one has posted to delete it like in facebook where if you put your curser in the right hand corner of a post a delete cross can be seen.
Bip.
By Bipridesagain at 09:59 on 09/07/12
ReportYes I have posted pictures before in picture albums and very enjoyable it was too, but, I wondered if it was possible to post one when replying to someone else's post, like for instance this one. I see no upload button here, only a submit button..
Bip.
By Bipridesagain at 09:56 on 09/07/12
ReportHi Bip, I thought you posted a picture before of the fence that was falling over? But yes, I can help you with that :) Just above the box where you write are various options for the type of content you'd like to post. If you press 'write' you can write an article and at the end it allows you to upload 3 photographs. If you want to post more than 3, or just post pictures, choose 'pictures' and you can post an album's worth. Hit the hut :)
By LEClare at 21:26 on 06/07/12
ReportA picture would be nice if possible of these gates because I haven't a clue what you are talking about, butterfly gates, what on earth are they…
By the way can someone like myself post a picture, if so can you tell me how because I see no load button anywhere, do I just put a link in my post to a host site where a picture I would like to post exists .
Bip
By Bipridesagain at 19:13 on 06/07/12
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