Good to see that at last something is being done to renovate Princes Park, as shown in this article from the BBC Liverpool website:
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" Princes Park gets makeover
By Paul Coslett
Liverpool?s historic Princes Park is being spruced up as part of the city?s Year of Environment.
The historic Princes Park close to Liverpool city centre is to be given a week-long clean up.
The improvements are part of Liverpool?s Year of the Environment and include the removal of rubbish from the edge of the lake and the cleaning of graffiti from benches.
The lake itself will undergo a deep clean, cobbled paving will be re-set and trees will be pruned with new shrubs planted.
The work is being carried out by community partners including Merseyside Police, Mersey Fire and Rescue Service and Liverpool City Council, some of the work in the park will be carried out by young offenders as part of a community pay back scheme run by the Probation Service.
The landmark Sunburst Gates at the Princes Avenue entrance have already been restored, the railings surrounding the gates will now be replaced or re-painted.
The park covers 45 hectares, designed by Joseph Paxton, who had previously been head gardener at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire. It opened in 1842. Paxton would later go on to design the Crystal Palace in London for the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Although open to the public the park was originally a private development paid for by the sale and development of large houses around its edge.
The park includes the gravestone of Judy a donkey who gave children rides in the park for 21 years, dying in August 1926.
last updated: 09/02/2009 at 15:55 "
--But the bit about the gates sounds as though its supposed to be finished. It looks like an undercoat to me. Isn't it supposed to be gilded like it used to be? Suppose they must have ran out of money, whats new?
John
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