Liverpool Parks and Grounds

**lindylou** · 10-02-2006

I've been past Greenbank many times but not been right through it.

There is a small park called Reynolds park in the Woolton area, we used to go there now and again, but people always say they havn't heard of it. (Probably people from the north of the city who don't know the area) it's sort of tucked away at the back of a road.

**Kev** · 11-16-2006

A MULTI-million pound scheme to rehouse Liverpool's 200-year-old tropical plant collection at Calderstones Park has been scrapped. more

**ChrisGeorge** · 11-16-2006

Originally Posted by Kev

A MULTI-million pound scheme to rehouse Liverpool's 200-year-old tropical plant collection at Calderstones Park has been scrapped. more

Hi Kev

Sad to hear, Kev. And what is the situation in regard to the public viewing the historic prehistoric Calderstones? At one time they were set up in a small circle in the greenhouse at Harthill next to Calderstones Park but last I saw some years ago the panes of that conservatory were broken as the place stood vandalized and I believe the standstone boulders with their prehistoric carvings removed by the Corporation for safekeeping.

Chris

MissInformed · 11-16-2006

Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Hi Kev

Sad to hear, Kev. And what is the situation in regard to the public viewing the historic prehistoric Calderstones? At one time they were set up in a small circle in the greenhouse at Harthill next to Calderstones Park but last I saw some years ago the panes of that conservatory were broken as the place stood vandalized and I believe the standstone boulders with their prehistoric carvings removed by the Corporation for safekeeping.

Chris

Hi Chris
I always wonder where the Calderstones are.
They should be on display somewhere. We at least have a right to see them!!

**ChrisGeorge** · 11-16-2006

Originally Posted by MissInformed

Hi Chris
I always wonder where the Calderstones are.
They should be on display somewhere. We at least have a right to see them!!

Why aren't they in the museum on William Brown Street or in the new museum at the Pier Head?

Chris

**Hilary Burrage** · 12-23-2006

Hallo all,

Quick note to say if you're interested in Sefton Park, maybe you have a view on the mild weather and what's happening as a result of it? I've tried to look at a few aspects of this in my latest blog (22.12) on the website: www.hilaryburrage.com

Have a good Christmas (or indeed Solstice) and a great New Year!
Hilary

**ChrisGeorge** · 12-23-2006

Originally Posted by Hilary Burrage

Hallo all,

Quick note to say if you're interested in Sefton Park, maybe you have a view on the mild weather and what's happening as a result of it? I've tried to look at a few aspects of this in my latest blog (22.12) on the website: www.hilaryburrage.com

Have a good Christmas (or indeed Solstice) and a great New Year!
Hilary

Hello Hilary

You have a fine website. Thanks for directing us to it. I enjoyed the photographs and information about Sefton Park. Excellent work.

All the best for the season

Chris

MissInformed · 12-31-2006

got a great book about Sefton Park yesterday.

Will post some bits and pieces in the next few days.

**Kev** · 01-05-2007

A SECRET history of Liverpool's parks is to be revealed in a new book.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have investigated events in the city's parks and open spaces in the past 200 years.

It is hoped the work will lead to funding for a three-year project examining the problems facing the parks and the way they are used today.

Associate researcher Dr Katy Jones said: "Sefton was, and still is, the jewel in the crown. It was the most complete of all the parks - although none were ever really finished. continues......

* LIVERPOOL'S first park covered the whole of Toxteth. Although actually an ancient hunting ground, with gamekeepers for the gentry, people throughout the city used it as a common until the 18th century.

* The Adelphi hotel stands on the site of the city's first pleasure gardens, where people paid to walk through the ornamental gardens and concerts were held.

* A scandal rocked one private gardens, now the site of the University of Liverpool, after a resident who did not want to pay copied the key and gave it out to strangers.

**Kev** · 01-10-2007

Half a million visitors enjoy the Palm House - THE story of the Sefton Park Palm House is a reflection of Liverpool's rise and fall - and rise again. more