Showing posts with label Kettering Civic Society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kettering Civic Society. Show all posts

Monday, 21 November 2016

Celebrating Our Senses - Walk 4 - Look



The fourth in a series of 
Mindfulness and Wellbeing walks. 



Our Mindfulness meditation - Look - 
was lead by Carolyn Bantin 
in Kettering Civic Society Meeting Room 
on Platform One at Kettering Station.


We examined small packs of fossils 
and thought about time and journeys.



We looked above our heads and 
below our feet and collected a series of images 
of things we noticed on our walk
 which can be viewed here 


We collected Ginko leaves as we 
were lucky to find several lovely 
specimens during our walk - the 


Ginko is also known as a living fossil 
and it's other name is the 
maidenhair tree as it's leaves a
re similar to the maidenhair fern


In the garden next to the Alfred East Art Gallery


we collected more leaves in gorgeous, flame reds




We made our way through the town 
to the Fuller Meeting Rooms and museum 
where we had a private tour of their collections.


 and played the talking Drum




We filled in our walk journals


and had our picnic indoors then made 


a dash back to the station through heavy rain.



Walk distance  2 miles.


Many thanks to David, our guide at Fuller Museum and Monica from Kettering Civic Society for the use of their meeting room, both helped make the walk special and different.

The was first in a series of Mindfulness and Wellbeing "Celebrating Our Senses" walks made possible with a Grant awarded from Margaret Giffen Community Fund and Northamptonshire Community Foundation and with support from NStep.

Monday, 15 February 2016

Making Connections


Carole was contacted by by a member of Kettering Civic Society for some mosaic advice which resulted in a long and lively meeting at Kettering Station and the Green Patch. The Civic Society now have a project room on Platform 1 at the station, they are also trying to raise funds to reinstate a 1960s mosaic panel by artist Kenneth Budd.


Some history






Proposed location


Events and ways you can help


Fund raising dinner menu


Ways to donate


Key to the mosaic


During her conversation with Monica, it transpired 


that Monica's father, Allan Page, had had a wool shop 


in the Grange Place shopping precinct in the 1956's. 

Allan was also concerned that there was nowhere for the young people to hang out so he also opened a tea room with a milk machine, the height of 50's chic! The Wool Shop was directly opposite what is now the Grange Place Resource Centre. 


The pink swing dress in the 
window could almost 


be part of the Fashion exhibition currently 
on at Kettering Museum!


The log tables are really inventive and 
could almost be from The Green Patch of today.


Seeing these photographs seems almost like time travelling 


- the brick planters looks very smart and is no longer there today.