After researching newspapers stories at Tower Hamlets Archives, I have a good grounding of images and nuggets of information about what the park was like and what has happened there. It was a park for community cohesion, tea dances, concerts, a lido, boat rides, fishing, bathing and more!
There is alot of nostalgia surrounding the park and lost history which has literally been concreted over. The park has gone from a pretty place with art deco buidlings and forests to flat green open space with vandalism and a lost community.
Interviews that I have been successful, and a little depressing.
I want to make a non-exclusive peice of work-open to everyone, I want to make something which will connect the users of th epark with the past and how the park was to perhaps make them appreciate it more and think how it could be.
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