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  • Our Green & Pleasant Town

    Our Green & Pleasant Town

    by Karen Winyard “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade” as the saying goes, (although in my house we make G&T instead). And that’s just what FONA did when handed […]

     
  • View across The Forest, Nottingham, 2006. [Photo: Paul Elliott]

    The history of Nottingham’s green spaces supports a vision for re-wilding the city and Broadmarsh land, taking it back into Sherwood Forest

    Plans to transform and re-wild the land formerly occupied by the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre and bus station in Nottingham supported by the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust in consultation with Influence Landscape […]

     
  • Green Spaces Fact files – now available

    Green Spaces Fact files – now available

    The Nottingham Green Spaces Project has now launched 5 Fact Files about different green spaces in Nottingham. The green spaces covered include the Arboretum, the Forest, smaller parks, the walks, […]

     
  • Under lockdown – highlighted importance of green spaces

    Under lockdown – highlighted importance of green spaces

    The current coronavirus crisis has highlighted the crucial role of green spaces play in our daily lives – whether for exercise, meeting people, relaxation or wellbeing. In recent weeks, some […]

     
  • Breathing Spaces – the script

    Breathing Spaces – the script

    In July 2016 the Green Spaces Project staged performances of Breathing Spaces, a play specially commissioned for the project, written by Andy Barrett, produced by members of Excavate and performed by […]

     
 
  • Our Green & Pleasant Town
  • View across The Forest, Nottingham, 2006. [Photo: Paul Elliott]
  • Green Spaces Fact files – now available
  • Under lockdown – highlighted importance of green spaces
  • Breathing Spaces – the script
Project Events

Project Events

Here’s a selection of some of the events that happened during the Green Spaces Project.  

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Entertainments & celebrations

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

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

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

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

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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About the Project

During 2016 we worked with community groups to disseminate our research findings to local communities and beyond via a range of accessible and innovative activities, including a play, exhibition, walks, talks and other events. Explore the rest of the website for more details.

The Social World of Nottingham’s Green Spaces is a community co-production history project to investigate the social history of some of Nottingham’s most important parks and open spaces.

 
a long, furzy common, crowned at the top by about twenty wind-mills, and descending in a steep slope to a fine level, round which the race-course runs.
 






 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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