Oystercatcher Pavement, Sensory Garden, Grange-over-sands, Cumbria
N 54° 11.350 W 002° 54.727
30U E 505734 N 6004572
In 2010 the local Soroptimists created this addition to the sensory garden of a relief sculpture of an Oystercatcher bird. Oystercatchers were winter migrants to Morecambe Bay, 50 metres east of the garden. There are now some pairs resident.
Waymark Code: WMAEQW
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/06/2011
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The art is carved from local green slate and surrounded by sandstone like paving slabs. A plaque nearby explains.
"The Oystercatcher Pavement
Sincere thanks to Soroptimist member
Ethel Ripley
local businesses and individuals
who have generously donated
this pavement. September 2010"
Ethel Ripley was a founder member of the Grange Club and enjoyed sitting in the Park Road Gardens.
"PARK ROAD GARDENS
On Sunday, 12th September 2010, the new Oystercatcher Pavement in the Sensory Garden of Park Road Gardens was unveiled. Members of Soroptimist International of Grange-over-Sands had spent several months planning this pavement, which has an oystercatcher engraved on slate as its central feature, the oystercatcher being a bird seen regularly on the Bay. Donations had been received from local businesses in Grange, but the major expense of the engraving had been covered by a very generous donation from the family of Ethel Ripley, a founder member of the Grange Club who spent many hours sitting in the gardens. One of her nephews, Ian McCandlish, with his wife Jane had travelled from Harrogate for the occasion, along with other members of her family.
The Soroptimists are grateful to the following:
Clare House, Gedye & Sons, Grange Gallery, Grange Hotel, Grange Plant Centre, Proctors Butchers, Lloyd Saunders, Station Bookshop, Trenouths, Watchers, Wilson Robinson
Also present at the unveiling were The Mayor, Councillor Tom Harvey, Councillor Bill Wearing representing SLDC, members of The Friends of Park Road Gardens, and local residents." from (
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A guide to the trees of Grange, including Park Road gardens, was published in July 2011. Copies available from Watchers Wildlife and TIC.