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Blooming great! New Barnsbury Square garden flowers tea party

Pictured at the Barnsbury Square tea party are James Murrey, Andy, Christopher and Georgina Cox, Kathleen Cranham and Kenneth Cranham, Tamara Lo, Mayor Mouna Hamitouche, Natacha Fovel, Fiona Victory, Jackie Leigh, Councillor Jilani Chowdhury, Maggie Tattersall, and Bhaupesh Thapa

Published: 02 July, 2010
by RÓISÍN GADELRAB

FRIENDS of Barnsbury Square celebrated their revamped gardens at a summer tea party on Saturday. Endless cups of tea and cakes were served, including Laura Hatfield’s “death by chocolate cake”, and children were transformed into lions and butterflies by a talented teenage face-painter. Tamara Lo, chairwoman of Friends of Barnsbury Square, said: “It was fantastic. Everyone said it was a great day. All the cakes were eaten, loads of cups of tea and ice-cold drinks. And 14-year-old Isabel did the face-painting.”

The party was to mark the overhaul of the gardens’ flowerbeds by the Friends group, which was funded by £5,000 in grants from the Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Council.

Ms Lo added: “We put in a lot of work re-doing some very shady flowerbeds. We decided to celebrate the fact that this was done. The weather was perfect, people enjoyed sitting on the grass and Mayor of Islington Mouna Hamitouche came down.”