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Onlookers admiring the newly re-created Blue Peter Garden which has been reconstructed after being moved from London to MediaCityUK.

Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. When the programme's production base moved to Salford in September 2011, plans were made for the famous Blue Peter Garden, designed by Percy Thrower and created adjacent to Television Centre in 1974, to be taken apart and recreated at the piazza outside the new studios at MediaCityUK.

The Italian sunken garden (consisting of the statue of 'Petra', the sunken pond and the time capsule that was originally buried in 2000) was officially opened on Thursday 23rd February 2012 by HRH Princess Anne. Link - BBC News

Located near the MediaCityUK Metrolink tram stop, the garden also features the original hand (and paw) prints made by the presenters when it was first made in the 1970s.

For the first time it is also open to the public to visit. When the garden was situated at BBC Television Centre in London, members of the public could only gain access during a special tour of the studios.

Link (Archive Link ) - MEN report on opening of Blue Peter Garden at MediaCityUK by HRH Princess Anne