{"id":646,"date":"2018-01-19T08:25:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=646"},"modified":"2018-01-21T18:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:38:03","slug":"stories-in-victoria-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Stories in Victoria Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erewash Borough Council are delighted to have been awarded Heritage Lottery funding to restore and renovate the town&#8217;s Victoria Park and a great programme of work  is underway.  Stories in Victoria Park is part of it .  <\/p>\n<p>To mark the centenary of the Park Chrissie Hall has been commissioned to write a short story about the park.  Chrissie will also work with local people and a variety of community groups,  encouraging  and inspiring everyone to share their stories about the Park and also their photographs of people enjoying time in Victoria Park. <\/p>\n<p>Chrissie will be encouraging people to get in touch and write their memories about the park &#8211; for example&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Playing on the park<\/li>\n<li>Working on the park<\/li>\n<li>First smoke!<\/li>\n<li>Pushing a pram<\/li>\n<li>Playing on the swings<\/li>\n<li>Walking dogs<\/li>\n<li>Having picnics<\/li>\n<li>Getting romantic<\/li>\n<li>Chilling out, sunbathing, or &#8216;dossing&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Posing for wedding photographs (Ilkeston&#8217;s Registry Office was opposite Victoria Park)<br \/>\nCelebrating a birthday<\/li>\n<li>Playing Bowls (Victoria Bowls Club has been active on the park since the 1920&#8217;s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8216;pop up&#8217; exhibition of stories and photographs about the park is planned.  Please get in touch if you have a story to share about the park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet-803x1024.jpg\" alt=\"LAGG_2\" width=\"604\" height=\"770\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-647\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet-803x1024.jpg 803w, http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet-117x150.jpg 117w, http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet-401x512.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Victoria_leaflet.jpg 1570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Park by kind permission of Stephen Millership (www.stephen.millership.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erewash Borough Council are delighted to have been awarded Heritage Lottery funding to restore and renovate the town&#8217;s Victoria Park and a great programme of work is underway. Stories in Victoria Park is part of it . To mark the centenary of the Park Chrissie Hall has been commissioned to write a short story about &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/?p=646\">Read more <span>&#x25BA;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lifestorywriting.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}