BEAUTIFUL images of one of Swindon’s parks have been turned onto a calendar to help pay for its preservation.

Debs Donkersley took the pictures on her many walks through Queens Park. She regularly posts photos on the park’s Facebook page but decided to create a calendar to boost the funds of the community council that keeps the park blooming.

Priced at £7, it will be on sale from next week with proceeds helping to support the community council’s work in preserving and improving the park.

Debs’s best known work is her series of images from the demolition of the old Swindon Colleges. The pictures she took of the site, which is now home to the Regent Circus Development, were exhibited at the Wyvern Theatre and the Beehive pub.

She said of her latest project: “Because I post a lot of pictures taken there on Facebook, I was asked along to one of the meetings.

“I walk through there every morning and every evening, so I see the constant changes throughout the year – spring, summer, autumn and winter.

“I see everything. I see the young shoots when they hatch through the soil and I see the last falling leaves.”

The photographs in the calendar, taken over the course of five years, reflect the changing seasons which fascinate Debs so much.

She said: “I’ve had quite a few orders from Germany and Australia. They are from people who have family connections and they want to give them the calendars. It has kicked off quite well.”

Last year her pictures were used as part of a consultation that asked local people how they used the park and what they wanted to see in it.

The community council, which was formed in 1982, hosts events and pays for improvements to the 12-acre park, including extra floral displays. It also has a community café run by volunteers, which helps to raise money.

Earlier this summer a new sign was made for the Drove Road entrance and the gardeners planted a new flowerbed around it.

English Heritage considers the space to be of historic interest and has listed it as a Grade II site on the national register of parks and gardens.

The calendar will be on sale at Bake ‘n’ Roll in Groundwell Road and at Baristocrats cafe in Commercial Road.