Is this park still in Liverpool please ? any sites to view it if still there..
Thanks Caterina..
Thanks Steven for the info on Princes Park..
Caterina..
Is there an up to date photo of Princes Park asi would like to what it looks like as i was told my Mum used to go there years ago and would like to know what state the park is now in very interested to know ..
Thankyou Caterina..
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...ark+liverpool+
you might find something here.
Just scoll down and see if there are any photos.
Here's two not very good photos Princes Park. The Park has not been well maintained and been allowed to deteriorate. Having said that, it's still an attractive place to walk around and imagine what it once was really like
Hi Caterina
Here's search on Flickr that revealed photographs of Princes Park:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Live...k&w=all&m=tags
Chris
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
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Thanks all so far for your kind help really kind this is such a good site..
Caterina
£70,000 revamp for historic park gates
Feb 1 2008 by Catherine Jones, Liverpool Echo
AN historic set of Liverpool park gates are to get a £70,000 restoration.
The work on the “sunburst” gates and their sandstone pillars at Princes Park, Toxteth, is expected to be completed by late spring.
Workmen went on site this week to remove the giant pair of decorative gates for refurbishment.
Last June, the Friends of Princes Park campaign group highlighted their fears the gates at the park’s main entrance were dangerous and needed urgent attention.
A Liverpool council spokesman said: “The restoration work will cost just under £70,000 and that money is coming from the neighbourhood fund.”
Princes Park was the idea of iron merchant and philanthropist Richard Vaughan Yates and was designed as a private park by Joseph Paxton in 1842, although the public had access to certain areas before the council took it over in 1918.
catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk
Christopher T. George
Editor, Ripperologist
Editor, Loch Raven Review
http://christophertgeorge.blogspot.com/
Chris on Flickr and on MySpace
Two days ago I took a pic of a sign (Aigburth 2 3/4 miles, I think it said), right next to those gates. I never even noticed if the gates had been removed or not. I'll have to check.
Edit: Yes, the gates have gone. Some of the sandstone pillar sections have been taken down. The joints between these have looked a bit unsafe, for ages.
Last edited by marky; 02-03-2008 at 04:13 PM.
The Sunburst gates after a hail-storm, Dec. 2007. The sand-stone pillars looked badly damaged, when I saw them today.
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