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Sidney Park presentation

We’ve updated our page about Sidney Park (here).

One of our volunteers – Darryl Walton – was out on sunny days last year (when permitted), photographing Sidney Park from all angles.  We’ve shared some of his photos, but all of them can be found in the Powerpoint presentation he’s put together.

As his presentation tours this historic park, he’s explained some of the history behind it.  Have a look.

Thanks to Darryl for helping us with this. We’re always keen to have volunteers help us map the area. Can you help?

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We want your memories

We can see what the parks, gardens and green spaces across Cleethorpes look like now, but what were they like in the past?

Have you lived here and while and got memories of one of the parks in decades past? Do older relatives have memories or photographs of local spaces?

We’ve found records of drinking fountains in Sidney Park and newspaper records of swimming competitions taking place in the lake there. Do you have memories or photographs of such things?

Not just the formal parks such as Sidney Park, Sussex Rec, Pier Gardens, but what about before open spaces were built on? What about sports facilities? Anyone got any records anyway about the long gone Clee Park from before Blundell Park was built?

We’d love to see photographs, postcards, books, clippings or anything. Or write us some memories. Or we could interview you.

Anything you can provide us with would be hugely interesting and helpful. We’ll keep this website alive with information about the history behind the green spaces in our area.

Thank you in advance.

Simply use our contact page to get in touch with us or email me, Karl, via karl@vanel.org.uk

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Welcome to our new website

Welcome to the new website for the “Green Route for Cleethorpes” project.

We’ll have more about the project soon, but we’re breaking the first turf here by getting the site up and running. We’ll launch properly in early 2021, but if you’re exploring – welcome.

Here’s a blog article elsewhere explaining what we’re up to : https://www.biglocalnorthcleethorpes.org.uk/2020/05/creating-a-green-route-through-cleethorpes/