Worthing's woolly phone box cover up (From The Argus)
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Worthing's woolly phone box cover up
9:26am Tuesday 22nd November 2011 in News
The weather might be turning chilly but this phone box is keeping cosy.
The knitted phone booth is making a stir as Worthing’s smallest entertainment venue.
Worthing Borough Council and Worthing Arts Council (WAC) have taken over the disconnected K6 kiosk, but there is nothing woolly about their plans to make it the county’s smallest gallery.
Inside the cosy exterior of the defunct phone box there are knitted birds and bees are nesting in the woollen landscape.
WAC will be organising a calendar of events for the phone box.
For more information visit worthingartscouncil.co.uk.
Comments(8)
GreggWallace
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11:46am Tue 22 Nov 11
Grocko
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3:54pm Tue 22 Nov 11
Hope to see a correction appear soon.
Blueprint22
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4:01pm Tue 22 Nov 11
We are really disheartened to see Worthing Borough Council and WAC taking the credit here - it was nothing to do with either group other than the rental of the box.
This was an inter-generational knitting project for young and older people to share skills and was kindly funded by The Wool Bar in Worthing.
No one from The Argus bothered to contact us and yet others once again take the credit for the work of positive young people in our community!
Shameful!
We would really appreciate a correction to this inaccurate and misleading article.
If you want to know more about the work of Blueprint 22 then we are on facebook.
James Perry
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5:45pm Tue 22 Nov 11
Blueprint22 wrote:Blueprint is a fantastic Organisation run by young people and for young people, what a shame that this was not the focus of this piece and more so that the credit for this work has not gone to the correct people.. Shoddy reporting methinks
I am the founder of the youth organisation Blueprint 22 the group that is responsible for this exhibition.
We are really disheartened to see Worthing Borough Council and WAC taking the credit here - it was nothing to do with either group other than the rental of the box.
This was an inter-generational knitting project for young and older people to share skills and was kindly funded by The Wool Bar in Worthing.
No one from The Argus bothered to contact us and yet others once again take the credit for the work of positive young people in our community!
Shameful!
We would really appreciate a correction to this inaccurate and misleading article.
If you want to know more about the work of Blueprint 22 then we are on facebook.
curly123
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6:38pm Tue 22 Nov 11
Grocko wrote:My goodness how can the Argus get this so wrong???? Did you not think to contact the founder of Blueprint 22?? its all the hard work of Amanda Baker and her amazing team... Did worthing council not tell you that they deserve no credit ??????? put this right please you have really disheartened to people that made this happen ......
Nice to see the woolly cosy phonebox. Pity you've credited the wrong people behind it though... it's nothing to do with Worthing Borough Council - and WAC have only rented the box out - the people you need to credit with all their hard work is Blueprint 22 and the Wool bar. (They both have facebook pages.)
Hope to see a correction appear soon.
cvs
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7:10pm Tue 22 Nov 11
Mandy Potter
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1:26pm Wed 23 Nov 11
mustaphaLeeko says...
10:31am Tue 22 Nov 11
They have been doing this all over the country for years, 2009 in Settle (N. Yorks), Powys (wales), Ely (Cambridgeshire), Glendaruel (Scotland)....
Oh well, at least Worthing is now only a few years behind the rest of us....