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    The building with the steps is the original lodge for the park. It was built in the 'doric' style (to look like a classical greek temple).

    It was destroyed during the war I think.

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    Yes, a fine and evocative picture indeed. That lovely Doric lodge gives us a completely different slant to a familar place. Thanks for posting it.

    Notice how everyone in the picture is done up in their finest. I remember, years ago, talking to a very old lady in North Wales who'd grown up in a well-to-do family on Prince's Avenue. She told me nobody would have dreamed of being seen in the park without their best clothes on. Another world eh?

    They eventually moved to rural Wales to escape the bombs and never returned. Talking to her, it was obvious that she assumed the area had remained much as she remembered it, a place where "a gentleman would never walk in the avenue without his hat on"...

    I certainly wasn't going to be the one to tell her any different!
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    Quote Originally Posted by knowhowe View Post
    They eventually moved to rural Wales to escape the bombs and never returned. Talking to her, it was obvious that she assumed the area had remained much as she remembered it, a place where "a gentleman would never walk in the avenue without his hat on"...

    I certainly wasn't going to be the one to tell her any different!
    That made me smile.
    I remember going for a walk along there and up Devonshire one cold evening. We didn't come across any top hatted gentlemen !

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    Default The Gates: A Further Update

    At their meeting on Jan.18th the Friends Of Princes Park received an assurance from Derek Dottie of Liverpool Parks and Gardens that the gilding work on the Gates will now definitely be going ahead, although we were not given a date for this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Doh View Post
    Well that's all great news, but when are they going to finish painting the Sunburst Gates? You can't see the sun through all that khaki! Anyone got any up to date info?



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    Here's your update, John - it's taken a couple of years, but I hope you'll think it was worth waiting for! And that you're happy now - or at least less unhappy!
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