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Mike Bent and Helen Blyth from Bury Council's parks and recreation team came to visit us
at Wellington Barracks last week.
The building works taking place for the new Fusilier Museum at the Arts and Crafts Centre in Bury town centre will release a small piece of land which was formally an enclosed refuse space outside of the old caretaker's house. This land will become part of Sparrow Park, where the Fusiliers' Lutyens Memorial will be
re-sited ready for the new museum's opening to the public on Gallipoli Day in 2009.
Part of the park is currently being used as a safe area for the removal and transport of waste material which has been cleared from the site to accommodate a lift shaft. After work is complete this area will need to be reinstated and both Bury Council and the Fusilier Project Team are keen that the garden should be re-landscaped. "It will need to reflect the quality of the new brickwork fascia, which is being provided through the brick sponsorship scheme," said Museum curator Mike Glover.
Mike and Helen came to discuss options for planting and alerted the Fusiliers to the possibility of applying for funding for the landscape works through the Community Spaces Scheme which is supported by the
Big Lottery Fund and administered by Groundwork Bury. Completing this application is a new addition to my task list and will go ahead after the architects' colleagues Brock Carmichael Landscape have been drafted in to produce a garden design plan.
With only a year to go to completion, the brick sponsorship scheme is a crucial fundraiser and will provide the new park's backdrop. If you haven't joined in already please clip out the coupon from this newspaper or visit our stand in the Mill Gate Shopping Centre. Learn more about this and the museum project or make a donation on our website fusiliersmuseum-lancashire.org.uk. For any other information call 0161 764 2208.
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