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Queens Park Lives
Location: Bedfordshire
Queen's Park Lives (QPL) is a community project dedicated to recording and celebrating the stories of people in Queen's Park, a multicultural area of Bedford.
As members of the interview team, we practice interviewing and then use our skills to record interviews about the lives of Queen's Park people. We then put our heads together to produce a magazine celebrating our neighbourhood and its people. So as well as helping us learn more about our neighbours, QPL gives us the chance to learn digital photography and brush up our IT and writing skills.
We produced two magazines in 2005. You can hear snippets from our first five interviews on our website (see link below), where you can also view images from the launches of the magazines. Both magazines are available from Bedford Central Library, All Saints Parish Church, and Barnfield College’s Westbourne Centre.
The launch of Queen's Park Lives 1 on 30th January 2005 was a great success. We had loads of local people along, together with Bedford MP Patrick Hall, Deputy Mayor Sian Hunt and the Bishop of Bedford, Richard Inwood.
Queen’s Park Community Centre was packed again for the launch of Queen’s Park Lives 2 in December 2005. The magazine features Mary Shaw, Mary O’Sullivan, Martin Masih, Muhammad Khan, teenagers Natasha Baugh and Ellen Konkiel, Faisal Ahmed, and Margaret Fisher. The team who produced the magazine consisted of Cecilia Brown, Pam Greenaway, Lynda Holman, Munawar Hussain, Trevor James, Jackie Johnson, Les Jones, David Konkiel, Giano Masih, Paul Nicholson, and Mary Shaw.
In early 2006 Bedfordshire Library staff led a series of evening talks on the History of Queen’s Park . Well attended by the public, these sessions prompted much reminiscing and produced many new revelations about Queen’s Park. This material will provide the meat for the third issue of the magazine, due out in July 2006.
Queen’s Park Lives is a partnership between All Saints Parish Church and Barnfield College. But it is the members of the team who own it.
If you’re interested in Queen’s Park and want to make your voice heard, come and join us! We meet from 10 am to 12 noon on Tuesdays at the Westbourne Centre and on Thursday evenings from 7.30 - 9.30.
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Heritage Lottery Fund: £24541
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