Friends of Mayow Park (FOMP) and Glendale (who manage the park on behalf of Lewisham Council) are getting ready for a joint working session on 12th June 2018 as a celebration event. Friends of Mayow Park first met in April 1993 (as Mayow Park Users' Group) and, for our 25 year anniversary, we would like to mark that occasion by working together with Glendale to brighten up one part of the park.
FOMP volunteers plan to clean up the Victorian granite water fountain in recognition that the park itself celebrates an anniversary - 140 years since it was officially opened to the public.
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| The fountain circa 1900 provided drinking water to park users |
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| The fountain today as an ornamental reminder of bygone days |
The volunteers will also tidy up the Triangle herb and fruit beds in front of the cafe. It there are enough volunteers we may do some additional work in the orchard.
Together with Glendale we will create a new rockery near the modern drinking fountain, an idea suggested by a park user a few years ago.
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| Somewhere in the undergrowth is a rockery waiting to be uncovered |
Opposite the rockery and next to a bench is a wonderful maple 'den' created after a diseased maple tree had to be felled some years ago. The stump is still there but around it have grown suckers to create a dense hideaway. We intend to cut back some of this growth.
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| Dense growth surrounds the dead tree stump . . . |
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| . . . but in among the wood there is a great hiding place |
And that is not all we plan to do.
We welcome more volunteers, for a short while or the whole session. If you can, bring a trowel or a spade. If you don't have tools we have a few.
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