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Marple Community Events Calendar => Events => Events Archive => Topic started by: admin on May 29, 2022, 01:15:07 PM
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Queen's Platinum Jubilee Marple Tree Trail
In remembrance of the Queen visiting Marple in 1968 and the planting of the Coronation Tree in Marple Memorial Park in 1953, 9 trees will be decorated down Market Street will be decorated by local schools, clubs and care homes to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. The Coronation Tree and bench in the park will also be decorated.
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Coronation Tree in Memorial Park decorated for Platinum Jubilee
Friends of the Park were really pleased to help Marple Youth Project organiser Helen Middleton decorate the Coronation Tree in the park today to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
It was decorated as part of the wider project orchestrated by Helen to decorate nine trees on Market Street in the town centre and to create a "Tree Trail" of decorated local gardens too.
In advance of this Friends of the Park had rubbed down and repainted the Coronation Bench during our task days so it was looking its best.
It is fascinating to compare today's photo with those from 2006 and see how much the tree has grown in 16 years since the Coronation Bench was created. It's a good job we left plenty of room around it!
Further down the page you can see a postcard taken soon after the tree was planted in 1953, when it was just a sapling.
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