Cleveleys mum calls for community help to decorate Jubilee Gardens with painted rocks

A mum from Cleveleys is asking the town's community to join in with painting rocks to decorate the perimeter of Jubilee Gardens during the coronavirus pandemic.
By Rebecca Beardmore
Published 27th May 2020, 07:00 BST
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Bobbie-Jo Howarth, 28, lives on Jubilee Drive, and painted some rocks with her three-year-old daughter Nancy over the lockdown period, before deciding to leave them in Jubilee Gardens for other people to enjoy.

Now she hopes that more residents will join her in decorating the gardens, with the aim of filling as much of the perimeter as possible.

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Bobbie-Jo said: "We left the rocks there for people to enjoy while they were out doing their daily exercise, and it was just a bit of fun really.

Cleveleys mum Bobbie-Jo Howarth has asked members of the community to join her and daughter Nancy in decorating the perimeter of Jubilee Gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.Cleveleys mum Bobbie-Jo Howarth has asked members of the community to join her and daughter Nancy in decorating the perimeter of Jubilee Gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.
Cleveleys mum Bobbie-Jo Howarth has asked members of the community to join her and daughter Nancy in decorating the perimeter of Jubilee Gardens during the coronavirus lockdown.

"It's something to make people smile during this awful time. Nancy loved doing it, and my neighbour Abbie and her daughters joined in too.

"Now more people have been adding to them which is great. I can see the gardens from my kitchen window, and it's so lovely to see people running over to them to look at them.

"We just wanted to do something to make members of the community smile."

Pebbles stones and rocks should only be taken from gardens and not from beaches, as the taking of natural materials from the coast is banned under the Coastal Protection Act 1949.

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