Oswaldtwistle Park

AccyAlec · 25-10-2006, 23:10

Hiya,
Do you know near the animal parts in ozzy park... dose any one have any pictures of the building that was there that is not now. When i was a kid and went to my nans i always wounders what it was.

Thanks
Alec

P.s If you have no photos its ok... Would just love to see and know what it was once :P thanks

garinda · 25-10-2006, 23:12

Hi Alex, I know your Nan, and the pet's corner is being rebuilt, so hopefully you'll be able to go and feed the ducks again soon.

AccyAlec · 25-10-2006, 23:13

Kewl... are you the person with the dog that walks past when doing my cookery lessons?

garinda · 25-10-2006, 23:17

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Kewl... are you the person with the dog that walks past when doing my cookery lessons?

Lol no.

When I was little my parents lived next door to your Nan and Grandad. Ask your Mum who I am, and then your Nan will be able to tell you I was the most beautiful baby she has ever seen, as she usually tends to tell me in the Stop and Rest.

AccyAlec · 25-10-2006, 23:22

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Originally Posted by garinda

Lol no.

When I was little my parents lived next door to your Nan and Grandad. Ask your Mum who I am, and then your Nan will be able to tell you I was the most beautiful baby she has ever seen, as she usually tends to tell me in the Stop and Rest.

Or yea. mum mum has mentioned you before lol. ... they are a lot of people on here who know me lol and i dont know them : seems a bit wierd lol :

alec

g jones · 25-10-2006, 23:41

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Originally Posted by garinda

Hi Alex, I know your Nan, and the pet's corner is being rebuilt, so hopefully you'll be able to go and feed the ducks again soon.

There is something not right about this. Not sure what it is. Neil knows a lot more. Council monies were put in with promises (by guess who just before his election) but appears to have all gone pear shaped.

garinda · 25-10-2006, 23:44

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Originally Posted by g jones

There is something not right about this. Not sure what it is. Neil knows a lot more. Council monies were put in with promises (by guess who just before his election) but appears to have all gone pear shaped.

I had a call from said Neil, saying the same thing. I hope it is resolved.

If it has all gone pear shaped I hope it comes out before Bonfire night, as there is a certain plump little someone, who'll better watch out he's not the Guy.

WillowTheWhisp · 25-10-2006, 23:45

He's gone a bit pear shaped himself hasn't he?

garinda · 25-10-2006, 23:50

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He's gone a bit pear shaped himself hasn't he?

Willow!!! Don't be nasty, or I would say that if I knew who you meant.

Neil · 26-10-2006, 04:01

There might be some good news about the pets area refurb in this weeks Observer, then again check out next weeks instead. The Observer is usually a week behind the rest of the world. I expect the Observer will be running with the successful Lottery bid Stage 1 grant this week, so they might do the Pet's news next week. That will put them a full week behind the LET who had the story on the Lottery bid in last Thursday. This time I resisted and did not get my kiddies in on the photo.
Ok to be honest last time I had no one to look after them so had to take them with me.

Neil · 26-10-2006, 04:38

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Originally Posted by g jones

There is something not right about this. Not sure what it is. Neil knows a lot more.

LOL something that I actually know about

There has been quite a lot of confusion over the pets corner. The initial plan instigated by ourselves (Friends of Rhyddings Park) and Nicole Cook (the then HBC Devolution Officer) was a quick clean up and return of the animals. Assuming a successfull Lottery bid the area would then have been fully refurbished.

The Lottery bid changed due to a different scheme being recomended by Lottery funder. We were then informed that the bid would not fund animals. That put is in the position of completing the full refurb on our own. Recent information from the lottery funder is that they will fund the pets if the residents want the pets area. All very confusing and not very helpful when trying to plan a project.

I will give you an idea of what is needed to be done. The whole perimeter fence really needs either replacing or strenthening, on several occasions some, shall we say naughty people, have cut the fence to steal rabbits etc. We want to reopen the centre path so that needs tarmacing to allow disabled and pram access. The fence lining the centre path is only about 6 foot high so that needs to be higher to stop anyone getting into the area. Ideally most of the area needs to be fenced over the top of the pens to prevent the hundreds of pigeons from returning again. The easiest and cheapest part is replacing all the animal houses. All of this work has to be carried out to the correct Council standard to ensure safety to the public and to comply with their public liability insurance.

I am expecting some good news on the finance side to be made public very soon so I will not say any more for now.

The long delay has actually had one good benefit for the area. When we first removed the area the ground was, to be honest, a muddy mess. We could hardly walk without slipping in the mud. ( I use the word mud to describe not only mud, don't forget the animals have been in that same area for many years

) After six months of being left untouched the ground as recovered amazingly. We now have a selection of the largest nettles in the Borough, all with plenty of roots firming up the ground very nicely. I spent a couple of hours recently strimming one of the pens and was very pleased with how firm the ground now is even after all the rain we had the same week. We had always planned to rotate an empty pen around the area each year to allow it to recover. The longer than expected closure has accomplished this for the whole area which is definately a positive outcome of the delay.

Sorry my reply got a bit long, you did ask though