Images from Breathing Spaces, our community play
Our play, Breathing Spaces generated a vast range of exciting photographs, some of which are reproduced here. All photographs courtesy of Jo Wheeler
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How well do you know the Arboretum?
When did you last explore the Arboretum? Do you really know all there is to see? Have a go at our Discovery Trail. It’s a fun thing to do that’s […]
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Six films are now available to watch
As part of their work for the project Excavate have made a series of ten short films which are currently on display at the Angel Row exhibition. Each of these […]
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Nottingham’s Historic Green Spaces Exhibition
Using pictures, film and the written word this Exhibition celebrates these spaces and reveals something about why they were created, where they are located, how they have been used, and in what ways […]
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Enclosure Parks tree trail leaflet published
Nottingham City Council, in conjunction with the Nottingham Green Spaces project, has just published a new Tree Trail leaflet giving details of many of the most significant types of trees […]
Project Events
Here’s a selection of some of the events that happened during the Green Spaces Project.
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Entertainments & celebrations
The photograph above shows crowds on the Forest in 1897 attending diamond Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria (with grateful acknowledgement to www.picturethepast.org.uk). This theme includes: horse racing, the development of […]
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Controversies and contestation
The illustration (above) was part of a controversial leisure centre proposal, suggested for siting on The Forest in the 1990s. The project was much contested at the time and never […]
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Parks, wartime & the military
The photograph above shows the bell tower in Nottingham Arboretum. Designed by Nottingham’s borough engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton in 1857, the monument features two cannons captured in 1853 during the […]
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Education, health & hygiene
The photo above is taken near the bird cages in Nottingham Arboretum (with grateful acknowledgement to www.picturethepast.org.uk). This theme includes: green lungs as a counter to industrial pollution, cemeteries, influence […]
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Planting, planning and buildings
The photograph above shows a selection of the trees in Nottingham Arboretum. This theme includes: the ‘picturesque’, importation of exotic trees and plants, the role of commercial nurserymen, the influence […]
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