125 years of Sefton Park Palm House: collecting your memories of iconic building

“It was only very recently that we found out information about a suffragette trying to blow up the Palm House.”
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Sefton Park Palm House is collecting your memories of the iconic grade two listed building.

They want to document its importance and significance in the lives of those who love and use it.

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The project is part of a National Lottery Heritage Funded programme designed to share more of the Palm House's story.

The Sefton Park Palm House charity's job has been to take on and protect the building and now they're taking on the project of conserving people's memories.

Sefton Park Palm House. Image: ShutterstockSefton Park Palm House. Image: Shutterstock
Sefton Park Palm House. Image: Shutterstock

Heritage Project Manager Laura Pilgrim says: "My role is funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund, and this project is about signage and interpretation of the Palm house.

“It's a really exciting way to reveal more of the history and also some of the things that people are really interested in, like the types of plants and where they come from."

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"You wouldn't know what part of a jigsaw you might be bringing to the Palm House when you tell us about an event that you've been to - maybe you've got photographs of it - or things that we didn't know.

“It was only very recently that we found out information about a suffragette trying to blow up the Palm House."

The history of the building is rich, to say the least, the saying usually goes if these walls could talk, but in a glass conservatory that has had each pain replaced, that phrase doesn't really work. Just imagine all the things that it's been through for the past 125 years.

Reflecting is important; those sights, smells, and sounds are important to our mental health, especially as we get older. Everyone has their memories of the palm house. Laura's job is to capture those memories whilst they still exist. The collation of stories will be ongoing throughout the national lottery funded project.