’Millennium Markers’ - Industrial heritage in a community space.
Stationed to provide a seat from which to view the passing trains.
Steam engines once screeched to a halt in this pocket park. Now oak sleepers stand as local landmarks in a space carrying a freight of creative projects.
Nature trail Engine plates: part of an integrated scheme that included the feature pieces, nature trail, signage and seating.
Sand cast bronze Oak leaf engine plate, part of the nature trail.
Modelled by a year six pupil at Childs Hill Primary School, London NW2.
Pupils in local schools modelled plants, insects and letters in clay. A selection of which were sand cast into bronze.
Carriages were added to the site at a later date: freighted with a cargo representing the Earth, the Sun and the Moon.
Creative Cargo
Summer workshops included one making dinosaurs.
Jurassic Sculpture Park
Another summer workshop made windmills.
Flower Power
The Cricklewood Millennium Green is a community space local to where I live. Over the years it has served as a venue for various creative projects.
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