Words on the Street

 

Words on the Street

a celebration of Spring Gardens
The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton SK17 6BQ

public event Sunday 19th February 2023

11am - 3pm

story and poem exhibition also open on Saturday 18th

strange stories, gruesome anecdotes, ridiculous rhymes, poignant poems and the changing faces of shop windows all wrapped around 100 years of photographs,

What words will tell the story of a street? What words would raise a shopping smile, or provoke a cafe frown? What pictures get us talking? Join us for a walk through time in the comfort of the Pump Room in Buxton. With photographs from more than a hundred years of shops and shoppers on Buxton’s Spring Gardens, we’re inviting people to stop, chat, maybe pick up a cuppa and talk a bit more, write a poem or add their own words to our growing collective poem…There will be beautiful poems to read and ridiculous limericks to laugh over; or maybe don’t say anything at all and simply enjoy pictures of bathchairs on Terrace Road and Ladybird Book displays in WH Smiths and a legacy of ice cream parlours and sweet shops on the Gardens

 

Saturday 18th: exhibition of stories and poems on display in Pump Room (lots of pieces from Buxton Community School) - still there for excitement, alarm and despair on the Sunday, 11am - 4pm

Sunday 19th

Drop in during the day, the event is free (you have to buy your own drinks!) 

Times: 11am – 3.00pm

Materials provided

The Pump Room: The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BQ

A Buxton Our Street event, hosted by the Buxton Crescent Heritage Trust and organised by Creeping Toad