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Wednesday Aug 18, 2010
Wednesday Aug 18, 2010
Vineyard Church took over the Old Chemist in Bitterne Park Triangle in December 2009. In this feature we talk to Matt Hyam, Senior Pastor, and various other people, about why the Church decided to take over the building, and what goes on there.
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Thursday Jul 30, 2009
Thursday Jul 30, 2009
This piece features interviews with parents mainly from around the St Denys, Bitterne Park and Portswood areas in Southampton, who choose to 'home educate' their children. They talk about why, and how they do it. It also features interviews with several of the children.
A version of this also appears on the St Denys Community Show.
For more info about home education, try the Education Otherwise website which includes links to local groups.
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Saturday May 23, 2009
Saturday May 23, 2009
In this third clip Mary Long talks about: Before the clock tower; leaving children while mothers shopped; Triangle today; before Rverside Park; homework in Cobbett Road Library; playing; Sandringham Road.
Saturday May 23, 2009
Saturday May 23, 2009
In this second clip Mary Long talks about: Local shops; buying a bike; shop in Hillside Avenue; Xmas savings club; Southampton Lido;
Saturday May 23, 2009
Saturday May 23, 2009
Eighty-year-old Mary Long has lived in Bitterne Park for most of her life – and loves it. In these audio clips you can hear how her father bought their house for £500 cash, about shopping at the Triangle, where she used to play, and why she wasn’t allowed to go to what is now Sandringham Road (but did anyway!).
Clip 1: 1925-1940; unemployment; her house; childhood; playing; school; the war; bomb in Bond Road;
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Ann Ridley’s drawing of the Triangle is progressing apace, she reports. She hopes she’ll be able to display her work at Cobbett Road Library and at the Civic Centre. Read our previous story here
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Around 150 people gathered outside the Copsewood Road school gates to show their opposition to a ‘PlayFootball-style’ football pitch and clubhouse development going ahead at Bitterne Park Secondary School. They’ve collected around 700 names on a petition against the development idea. See also: All weather pitch & “clubhouse” scheme on hold, meeting told
Friday Oct 03, 2008
Friday Oct 03, 2008
The Thekchen Buddhist Centre has been near Bitterne Triangle for over 15 years. We've now updated Matt Koumis's article about the Centre with an audio interview and meditation demonstration, recorded just before a lunchtime drop-in session at the Art House Cafe, Bedford Place.