Very happy to announce that Friends of Ally Pally Station have been shortlisted for the Community Impact Awards next week. We got there because our station garden was created and maintained by the community.. Back in June you brought plants, support and enthusiasm. There are now 28 large planters - some of which were made by neighbours, that are full of a varied array of flowers, shrubs and herbs.
If we win, it wasn't us, it was you!
If you enjoy it, that was what we were hoping for
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A man on the platform told a gaggle of women of my age in high spirits admiring the pots (must have been stitch and knit show) that it was a community effort; the women then went and inspected every pot, talking to each other excitedly all the way and drawing the other passengers into their conversation. I followed out of idle curiosity, as I often do, but the train arrival stopped me from joining in (which I also do, alas, too often). It was a pleasant wait for a delayed train for a change.
I do not use trains regularly though and am curious what regular commuters think. There have been suggestions to put a notice board, to plant wild flowers, to have hanging baskets, and some would like to see trees in planters... Any opinions?
There were various ideas which could be borrowed on that film about station partnerships, which was very inspiring.
Juliet Solomon
I cleared a couple of dead plants and put in some violas for the winter in their place.
You can do the same. Tending of the station planters is both a responsibility and a privilege.
The pots at the station showcase our community. I happened to be waiting rather a long time for the train one Sunday at platform 1 with a large number of visitors returning from a show at the Palace and overheard much praise (yes - much!) and some surprise that a London station looked so well cared for as it was, in the northern clipped vowels of one older lady, "not a place you expect to find much in the way of a community". Arrival of the train stopped me from disabusing her and her companions of false notions about what sort of a place London is. A pity.
It's great that they assumed it was a community effort!
Ah yes, shame about that train arriving before you could put them straight Indijana. The sense of community in our neighbourhood is something I treasure.
Terrific. So good to arrive at this lovely place from time to time. Cheers up my less than willing visits to London. I can almost feel the people behind the plants, too.
Congratulations - that is such good news!