Several months ago the playground – owned by the Rowntree Housing Trust – located on Teal Drive was closed.
Locked gates at the playground on Teal Drive
Problems has arisen when vandals damaged part of the children’s slide.
Understandably repairs had to be completed before access was reinstated.
..But the gates have remained locked.
It would be a great shame if the authorities cannot ensure this facility is available at least during the day at weekends and during the summer holidays.
One possible solution would be to put together a volunteer team of key holders who could secure the park at night and reopen it in the morning.
City of York Council’s York Learning is hosting the annual Inspirations exhibit to celebrate the work of new learners from York Learning’s Drawing, Painting & Watercolour classes.
Inspirations is hosted at York Explore Library from Friday 3 May until Sunday 2 June.
York Learning provides residents with the opportunity to work with qualified tutors to express themselves creatively in a group learning environment.
The creative programme offers regular classes on a term basis, a variety of one day workshops and two community arts projects yearly. Workshops scheduled for autumn and winter include contemporary oil painting, wood carving and, gold and silver leaf gilding.
“I
haven’t seen anybody dead before and we’re in the water, wading to the shore
and we’re literally brushing against… bodies rolling in the surf…eighteen,
nineteen year olds…people that we know…”
Bomb
Happy evocatively
brings to life the verbatim memories of the last five York Normandy Veterans
who, as young lads from York, Leeds, Sheffield and London, find themselves part
of one of the most important military operations in World War Two.
Told
in their own words, Bomb Happy follows each Veteran’s unique
journey from D-Day to VE Day highlighting the lifelong impact of post traumatic
stress disorder.
Meet
the Veterans- a unique opportunity to meet York’s remaining D-Day Veterans,
including one or two of the real men behind the stories in Bomb Happy, alongside
their wives & widows, after the show!
“ Bomb
Happy is a verbatim victory….What we see on stage are not worldly-wise old
men reminiscing about the past but boys shipped to an unknown land being
confronted with the carnage of the battlefield. 5 star Review, Broadway Baby
“…it
would be hard to imagine a more emotional experience at any Yorkshire theatre
this season.” Charles Hutchinson, York Press
” This
play about ordinary men in extraordinary times deserves a much wider
audience…This really is a must see play, which will stay with you forever.” Paul
Reed, BBC Historian, The World at War
“An
incredibly powerful and moving piece. Brilliant cast. Veterans story told in
their own words. Do please see it if you can.” Neil Foster, BBC Radio
York, BBC Radio Leeds
