Ilkeston - Spring
Has Sprung!
w/e 16 March
2003
Despite a cool easterly wind, three days of clear skies and almost
wall to wall sunshine gave Ilkeston a definite spring like feeling.
Passers-by were treated to views like this but residents of Bristol
Road overlooking Victoria Park had the luxury of seeing the blossom
on the trees and the beds of crocuses from their own homes.
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Just by crossing the road, they could also delight in a much
closer ground level view of the flowers.
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At Chaucer Old Park too, ('Illy 'Oleys) more clumps of these
pretty spring flowers surrounded a sentry-like row of trees like
a fall of autumn leaves along the edge of Cantelupe Road.
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But the season wouldn't be the same without the narcissi family.
These were on The Triangle.
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There are many other places in the town were daffodils and narcissi
are coming into flower but these on The Triangle are among the
first to burst their buds.
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And back at Victoria Park a variety of the season's blooms intermingled
and combined to provide perhaps the most colourful display in
town this weekend.
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