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Beautiful bollards make an impression – May 2025

Following two consultation events, one on our celebration day where lots of kids told us what they wanted (that was where the bright colours came from), Madeleine Pires took all the ideas away to transform them into designs for the bollards around Poets Park, incorporating poems written by the local community as part of our Heritage Lottery Fund project.

Thanks to Taking Root volunteers and residents who came along to scrub and paint the gorgeous background colours, the preparation work on the bollards is complete, ready for Madeleine to finish off the flowers and poem designs over the next few weeks. A huge thank you to everyone who stopped and told us they loved the vibrant colours.

Much excitement about this warm sunshine shade. And the first big wildflower to be painted was a red poppy. Daisies and a poppy, lovely wildflowers painted realistically – the first bollard to have art and poetic words from a poem written by a local who attended the creative community workshops.

The ‘bluebell woodland sunlight’ bollard was the second bollard around the Poets Streets to undergo an artistic transformation!

HOPE, an acrostic poem, is painted with blackthorn blossom, musk mallow, periwinkle and clover – the third bollard featuring art and encouraging community poetry from the lovely people of the Poets Park neighbourhood.