Welcome from Friends of Marple Memorial Park
"Friends of Memorial Park" are a group of local people whose aim is to provide opportunities for community members to improve and promote the use, awareness and care of facilities within Marple Memorial Park in order to make the park a welcoming, safe and enjoyable environment for all. To better understand our aims and objectives take a look at our Constitution. To discover more about our recent activities browse our minutes of meetings and Task Day galleries and to learn more about our projects and successes, use the links at the top of this page. If you'd like to get involved and support our efforts in any way please come along to one of our task days or meetings, or get in touch using the contact details on this site.
Task Day 28 June 2025
Summer work in the park
We were blessed with another fine day for our work day on Saturday, although it was very close and warm and therefore tiring for all our volunteers. We managed to do a lot of things that are priorities at this time of year. The recent rain, added to the warm weather, has given the weeds in the flower beds an unwelcome boost so that was one of the main jobs. We also cut back some of the lavender, got rid of some bamboo and planted the remainder of the bulbs very kindly donated by Dobbies. The grass has grown quickly too, so we did as much edging as we could; along the flower beds, around the flagpole and along some of the paths. We also tended to Danny Winter's planters which are looking very colourful.
At last we managed to make a start on the renovation of the boule court. Despite having done some trial digs a few weeks ago we found that when we got down to it, the under layer of wood was also rotten as well as the top layer. Not to be deterred we excavated both layers and use the wood delivered to build a completely new boundary edge at the top end of the court. This was hard work but we had a really skillful team on the job and made tremendous progress. There's obviously much more to do, but having figured out what's involved, the rest will be much easier.
Thanks again to all the support and donations from the passersby in the park.
