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A group of children from Hague Street Primary School together with local artists brighten play area with their designs

Tower Hamlets Homes has teamed up with Hague Street Primary School in Bethnal Green and Signs of Life from Bromley by Bow Centre to create a mural in the new play area in Potts Street on the Horwood estate, after residents asked if the area could be brightened up.

Children and teachers from the local primary school were keen to join in the project and get their ideas down on paper. Visiting community artist, Chris Warmington, worked with the children during a specially arranged workshop to come up with the designs for the mural. Chris put together the ideas and created a design incorporating the work from children across the school.

Community artists, Maria, Neva and Eva, from Signs of Life, Bromley by Bow Centre, painted the final design on the walls of the playground.

Ian Dalgleish, Project Officer for THH New Initiatives Implementation Team set up the whole project. Ian said, “It really great to see local young people do something positive and make a change for their community and neighbourhood.”

The new play area for the children of Potts Street and Horwood estate, which opened in April 2010, was funded through Play Pathfinder and managed by Tower Hamlets Homes.

Signs of Life is the Bromley By Bow Centre's Young People's Public Art Social Enterprise. For more information please visit:
http://www.bbbc.org.uk/pages/signs-of-lifehtc.html