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Report transcript in: Mash talks to Kayleigh about her experiences of Longford Park
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Well, hello, Kelly. Thanks very much for
agreeing to talk to me this morning about Longford Park.
Um, I wondered, Yeah,
how often you've been to Longford Park and whether you live nearby
and I live in.
So I,
um I'm not just a walker away.
It probably take me about half an hour, 40 minutes if I was to walk here.
But it's only a few minutes on the
bus,
and
I've never actually been here a lot. I've only
visited
a
couple of times.
Um, but I do really love the animal corner. I think it's really lovely
to come and see animals in the park. It's not, um, kind of in
where I live. We've got little parks around, but there's not anything
quite like this. Yeah,
I was walking up before, and I saw, um,
What's the thing called? The people play
golf?
Yeah, I thought that's quite
interesting.
Yeah.
I mean,
we're very lucky. That's that's come about and there's somebody that leads on it.
And
in the in the pandemic, you know, in the lockdown, people have really got into it.
Quite a lot of people
absolutely,
really appreciate it. So yes, it's it's very much valued by some people now,
not me, but we want to try and get our our grandchildren, our granddaughters
to do it. And then perhaps to show us how to do it.
Yeah,
that's it.
Yeah. So? So you've been two or three times. Yeah.
And it's mainly the pets corner that you actually like.
I
really like it.
I saw some of kind of, like the heritage, um, structures that are over there,
you know, kind of the older structures a bit further
over. I thought they were quite lovely.
I
think that there was a bit of graffiti on it, which is
the
best.
It was
really
nice.
Yeah.
So, um
yeah, so as as well as pets Corner. So that's obviously a real draw for you.
And I'm talking to you at the cafe at the moment,
so obviously you appreciate having a cafe where you can meet friends.
Um, is there anything else that you particularly, you know, think is good?
Yeah.
I think it's good. The amount of people that I have
every time I've been there's always been
in the park.
And
so it it's a great space that locally people can come and everyone can be outdoors,
especially after lockdown.
Everybody appreciates the outdoors a lot more don't.
And in summer I'm sure it's going to be so much nicer.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's absolutely right. I mean, it is. It is.
It's lovely at different seasons, really, To be honest.
Yeah, it certainly is.
And looking around and and, you know, having been here a couple of times.
Do you think there are other things that would draw you more to come more?
Or do you think there could be any improvements that would,
um, make it better?
You know,
more
attractive to
people
to young people like yourself? I don't know if there's anything more.
I think I think it's It's a lovely park and everything you know that's going on.
Even I just like coming in and watching
the dogs.
My dog passed away in January,
so it's quite nice just coming and seeing other people walk their dogs.
And
one thing that I I I think, could be improved, Though, um, I was walking along,
probably not paying enough attention, and nearly went into one of the potholes.
I think that would be
one
thing,
wouldn't it especially because we've got
Yes.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah,
that's true. That's true.
There's there's some infrastructure, things that really need doing.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah,
I saw. They're doing some work. Is it on the scout?
The scouts building? Yeah. Yeah. Scouts have been here a long time.
Many, many, many years.
It's really cool that it's located.
I know it is.
It is because it means that they've got they've got exposure to lots of, you know,
lots of nature.
Really?
Yeah,
yeah, yeah,
I think that's the main thing.
I think I've got a bit of a thing about potholes anyway.
But yeah,
I
think
that would be
my
love
life and anything else that would draw you, you know, to the park.
I don't know.
The time
that I used to go to the park would be me and my dog.
And I just like walking around, you know, with my dog. That's enough for me.
That's
good.
Thank you
for
your
time.
Thank
you.
I hope it helps
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