Two new arrivals have recently taken up residence in
Wolverton’s
Secret
Garden. There on the site of the living room of one
of the original houses that occupied the site sit an old couple watching the
television. The houses were demolished
in the late 60s – and it seems almost as if the couple were turned to stone
when the demolition took place nearly 50 years ago, because the TV is not a
modern day flat screen, but an old 9 inch.
In fact this scene is the creation of a group of Art
students from
Radcliffe
School,
assisted by artists Bill Billings and Paul Smith. On Tuesday 30th October at 1pm the
Mayor of Milton Keynes, Mike Barry, met these new residents at a special
ceremony attended by representatives from the funders – Creative Partnerships
and the Baker Tilley Fund at Milton Keynes Community Foundation- local firms
who helped with free donation of materials – MADCAP, Avanti tiles, Places for People and P Bird and
Son- and members of the Wolverton Secret Garden Society who commissioned the
work.
Please come and see it for yourself.
