M32 SKATE PARK BUILDERS INTERVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY BEN HAIZELDEN with Stew Paton, Rico Dorante, Tim Hill & Tim Bartelot So gentlemen, anybody care to tell us how this all started? Were you guys the first to start building down the M32?
Stew Paton: Phil Parker was the first person to lay any concrete, before that people skated there and some bladers had put in a rail which we borrowed to build the long quarter.
Who’s been involved past and present to getting the park to where it is now?
Rico: There’s a solid group of 5-6 skaters building, sort of, regularly… Stu Patton, Tim Hill, Joe Hill, Tim Bartelot, Dave Goatley and i…?? …but loads of people helped us along the way… Liam (Easton local skater) has been helping with the new quarter/hip thing… Ron’s helped with the wooden mini ramps we had before and he also sorted a lot of the guttering system, Tom Mansfield’s always helping us with the metal work and welding, Dave Side boys have built a wallride and some other bits at the top of the skatepark a while ago as well. Loads of wooden ramps, moveable ledges, rails are often left there, most of them we don’t even know where they come from…
