Wednesday, 4 January 2023

A street through time

Spring Gardens scenes

Resident? Visitor? Tourist, troubadour or ghost, we’re looking for poems, snippets and short stories that celebrate ( or haunt, or disturb) Buxton’s Spring Gardens

Deadline: 31st January 2023

Send as word doc to: creepingtoad@btinternet.com

The main project outline can be found, here


What matters to you when you walk along the Gardens: a shopping list, a café, this shop or that shop, a friend you’re going to meet, a pigeon sitting on an awning watching you?

 

The first contributions for this project are coming in and we’ll publish a few in the next day or so….


Just now, here are some more images (first gallery, here) of Spring Gardens over the years to whet your whistles, tempt your fate, dangle some bait (add a cliche of your choice)….why not pause, look, think, take a wander and pen to paper or finger to keyboard or voice to note….where we have names and dates they will be in the photo caption





WH Smith window 1967
WH Smith window 1963
JH Greenwood
John Mark & Co
MacFisheries 1941
Millers Modern Bar 1938
Greenlees Shoe Shop, 1931
Gymnasium, 1912
Hardwick Hotel window, 1930

Millers Cafe, 1960
Shufflebotham's, 1960
the Picture House at night



Why not take a wander along the 21st century Spring Gardens. Find these shops or their replacements or the spaces where they aren't any more....






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