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Great pics, AK1! They bring back some pleasant memories of Calderstones Park for me. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
Chris
Good pic,s AK1, when you resize do them to 600 x 480 and I would
suggest that you sign up to photobucket.....
steveb is right, photobucket is a great service, very easy to use for dopes like me. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by steveb
I can just change the size of the picture before I take it, so I don't have to bother altering it afterward. I downloaded Irfanview yesterday to alter the pics. Thanks for the advice!:)Quote:
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Here's a trivia question for you, AK1! In the third picture along, the one of the mansion house, there is a wall in the foreground and a ditch, which isn't as obvious. When I was a lad attending Quarry Bank I took a slide of a couple of my mates jumping the ditch in their school uniforms. My question is, do you know what the ditch is called. It is a regular landscaping feature on old country estates. No cheating. Or maybe you know already. . . :snf (41):Quote:
Originally Posted by AK1
Chris
is that the garden feature that has us laughing out loud? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
Yes, Billo, the feature is called a "ha ha" and comprised a ditch that was designed to stop deer or cattle coming onto the grounds of the house. The ha ha couldn't be seen from the house and provided an unbroken vista from the mansion to the distance.Quote:
Originally Posted by billo
Chris
Some chaps loitering around The Palm House in Sefton Park :hug:
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Great pics!!!:handclap:
great photos Mark :PDT11
Good work, Mark! Thanks! :handclap:
Chris
WORK will begin on the £6.6m restoration of Sefton Park within the next two months.
The waterside bandstand will be restored and supplied with power so it can host music events once again.
The Heritage Lottery-funded project includes completely rebuilding the Shaftesbury fountain into a working water feature and extending the Aviary café to form a central “hub” to the historic park.
But while the stonework of the Gothic revival fountain at the park’s Aigburth Road entrance is also set for refurbishment, health and safety issues mean it will not be used as a water feature.
The project is being driven by specialist architects Lloyd Evans Pritchard, who were behind much of the restoration of Birkenhead Park and are also due to carry out work at Stanley Park.
Adrian Pearson, a director at the Manchester-based firm, said: “We work in tandem with a landscaping practice. We’re taking forward the restoration of the monuments and buildings, including the Shaftesbury fountain, which is in an awful state.
“The fountain will be completely dismantled and taken off site for restoration. It will go back as a working fountain.”
The original statue of Eros, which stood on top of the fountain, will remain at its current home in Liverpool’s Conservation Centre and a replica will be carved to go on the restored monument.
The wrought ironwork and stone base of the bandstand will be repaired, with power and light supplies to create a modern performance site.
The Samuel Smith obelisk and William Rathbone memorial are also set for repair work.
Mr Pearson said: “Our aim is to have most of the restoration to the park and monuments complete by August 2008.”
catherinejones@liverpoolecho.co.uk
While they are at the restoration can the restore some public toilets in the park.
They will not cost £6.6 million but they will make people feel comfortable in the lower parts of the body.
Phredd
Hi all
In googling Lindy's hanging iron staircase in Llandudno, the photograph of which she posted for comment yesterday, I came across a site on Scottish ironwork that shows this photograph of the dilapidated aviary in Stanley Park. Also found this view of the derelict aviary in Sefton Park. :(
On a happier note (if, perhaps, deceptively so!!!), on the Scottish ironwork site I liked the view of this Hampden Park, Eastbourne, Sussex, urinal that looks, with the green moss (?) and patina of graffiti (? again), like a specimen of very expensive and rare oriental art. But I have a feeling the photograph flatters to deceive and that the loo would not seem so exotically beautiful in person!!! :snf (41):
Chris
You've mentioned Concert Square.
That's been newly created, along with a few other squares.
Be realistic. Where in any city centre would there be space to create parks?
Frankly, I don't know what's bugging you about Liverpool.
Name other cities that have parks in their main shopping areas?
(Battery Park is not in a shopping area, and neither is Central Park).
Besides, as Ged says, people do not go to town for the parks.
Thats not strictly true Phil.
Lack of decent public spaces is one of the things that i'll not miss about Liverpool but it's certainly not a reason for me to leave.
Maybe the fact that i have been living and working in the city centre for the last few years in the middle of a constant building site has tainted my impressions of it a little.
THIRTEEN of Liverpool’s parks and gardens have been awarded the country’s highest environmental stamp of approval for their high standards and for being “welcoming places”.
They will be hoisting the nat- ional Green Flag after being awarded the accolade by the Civic Trust.
For the first time, Croxteth Park and Anfield Crematorium Memorial Garden have been given top rating – and the city council says there will be even more award winners next year.
The Green Flag is the national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales and is awarded on an annual basis.
Liverpool City Council’s executive member for the environment, Cllr Berni Turner, said: “We entered 13 parks and have had a 100% success rate which is fantastic.
“It’s always important that our parks and gardens are of the highest possible standards, especially in our birthday year and for our European Capital of Culture year in 2008.
“The Green Flag highlights the best of the best when it comes to green spaces and I’m not surprised Liverpool has one of the highest number of flags in the UK.
“This accolade is a real credit to the city council’s gardening service, our partners, friends groups and the community.”
The Green Flag awarded to Croxteth Country Park was all the sweeter for staff who had tried for the award before without success.
Area councillor Phil Moffatt said: “We are thrilled to bits and this is really the jewel in the crown of Croxteth to be bestowed with this great accolade.”
The winners are Calderstones Park, Devonfield Garden, Everton Park Nature Garden, Falkner Square, Greenbank Park, Our Lady and St Nicholas Church Gar- den, Springwood Crematorium Memorial Gardens, Reynolds Park, St John’s Gardens, Woolton Woods and Camp Hill, Belle Vale Park, Anfield Crematorium Mem- orial Garden, and Croxteth Park.
Parks and gardens are judged on criteria including conservation and heritage, community involvement, health, safety, security and being welcoming.
The awards have been run by the Liverpool-based Civic Trust for 11 years.
Paul Todd, the Green Flag Award scheme’s programme manager, said: “We are once again delighted with the huge growth in winners, highlighting the importance of quality green spaces in our communities.”
The flags will be awarded in a ceremony in Leeds next week.
HALTON has six parks and woodland areas judged to be among the best in the country.
Victoria Park yesterday joined Hough Green Park, Pickering's Pasture Local Nature Reserve (LNR), Rock Park, Runcorn Hill Park LNR and Wigg Island Community Park, which will all fly Green Flags this year.
vickyanderson
LIVERPOOL has more than 1m trees in its 97 parks and open spaces spanning 2,500 acres. Read
Hi SuburbanQuote:
Originally Posted by Suburban
Your disturbing post inspired the following poem from me which is now on the 800 Poems site celebrating Liverpool's 800 years of history. I hope Steph and her ilk enjoy the notoriety and my little rant might inspire some action from the council and other responsible parties.
All the best
Chris
Graffiti in St. John's Gardens
You've sprayed your name all over the place
Aye, your name just sits there, in our face
Your contribution to the Year of Culture
shows you to be just one more vulture
Ah, eight hundred years of this?
Your fellow Scousers might wish -- not
Child, you're just wasting our time:
the taxpayer money used to clean up your muck
could be used to fight bigger crime
Christopher T. George
MORE than £870,000 is to be spent improving parks across Liverpool. Read
After trying to have toilets open in parks in Runcorn with no success I have given up all hope.
Green Flag do NOT put toilets as one of the criteria for the Green Flag award. Told that by Halton BC and it is also not a rquirement of any council to supply toilets in parks = also told that by Halton BC.
Green Flag !!!! I wonder if it's the same company that do vehicle recovery:disgust:
Phredd
THE Isla Gladstone conservatory will become north Liverpool’s equivalent of the Sefton Park palm house if restorations plans are approved. Read
court hey park national wild flower center
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I read recently,that the centre is under threat of closure, one of the main reasons being the constant,high level, of vandalism! I've been there several times,having found it by chance, and think it would be sad to lose it,after getting it based in Liverpool, in the first place.Not somewhere many would associate with wild flowers,etc.Quote:
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Steve
Steve, unfortunately we were greeted by a vandalised park (burnt stuff) yesterday but it didn't detract from a lovely couple of hours actually inside the Center (the park isn't within the confines of the security fence). It was the only bit of vandalism I've seen in 2 years of visiting regularly.Quote:
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There are CCTV cameras there as well.
Where is this, Kev?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
Sad pictures! Why do people feel the need to destroy such things?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kev
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Its within Victorian Court Hey park and has several entrances. Access is from Roby Road, Childwall Valley Road and Chelwood Avenue.
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One of our Spitfires is no longer missing
Oct 8 2007 by Liam Murphy, Liverpool Daily Post
A WARTIME Spitfire which crashed in a Merseyside park was resurrected this weekend, 65 years after the accident.
Enthusiasts and historical experts have dug up parts of the plane which locals said caused “quite a bang” when it plummeted out of the Wirral skies on October 14, 1942.
About a quarter of the aircraft, including its complete Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, all the cockpit instrumentation, part of the pilot’s seat, and even the remains of the pilot’s sunglasses, have so far been recovered from an 18ft-deep hole at Birkenhead Park.
Among those watching the excavation was Arthur Aspey, one of the few remaining eye-witnesses to the crash, which the aircraft’s pilot miraculously survived.
“It was quite a nice day,” recalled Mr Aspey, who was a 13-year-old schoolboy playing in the park when he heard the plane’s engine and looked up to see it “nose down, right into the ground”.
“I was not quite at the site, but I saw it coming down and there was a bang,” he said.
Mr Aspey, now a 78-year-old retired electrician, lived close to the park and remembers Sgt Woodcock, one of the park’s police officers, keeping people away from the crash site.
He said: “It was all such a long time ago. I saw the crash and all the people running towards me. Sgt Woodcock wouldn’t let anyone near it.
“I was told that at the girls’ school nearby, one of the teachers thought it was a bomb and ordered all the children under their desks.”
The plane’s famous silhouette, with smooth contoured lines and oval wings, helped to lodge it firmly in the public mind as the most instantly recognisable aircraft of World War II.
It is understood the pilot of the Birkenhead Park Spitfire, Sgt Goudie of the Royal Canadian Air Force, bailed out after experiencing engine trouble.
He believed he had aimed his stricken aircraft at the Mersey but it carried on farther than expected, fortunately crashing into the park rather than any of the surrounding buildings.
The pilot landed on the roof of the maternity hospital in Liverpool. He died in 1975.
Last week saw the culmination of two years’ planning by the Warplane Wreck Investigation Group (WWIG).
The organisation has had an established museum at Fort Perch Rock since 1977, with a collection which includes various items from many aircraft and 20-plus aircraft engines as part of the Blitz over Merseyside Exhibition.
WWIG member John Molyneux said: “The engine is in beautiful condition, with everything else compacted on top of the engine itself.”
The excavation was undertaken with the co-operation of Wirral council and the Merseyside Archaeology Office.
Recovered items will be cleaned up and eventually put on display at Fort Perch Rock and Birkenhead Park Pavilion, along with eye witness statements and photographs.
The WWIG has asked anyone else who witnessed the crash or has any information about it to contact them.
Information can be sent to: Curator, Warplane Wreck Investigation Group Museum, Fort Perch Rock, Marine Promenade, New Brighton, CH45 2JU. Tel 0797 628 2120 , or email d.darroch@ntlworld.com
Hi,
I'm a researcher for the University of Liverpool and English Heritage, researching a history of the city's parks. Over the last 2 years I've followed all the debates surrounding Liverpool's parks and have sought to consider them from every side. One thing is clear - Liverpool does not have a shortage of parks. The big challange facing the city's parks is that parks are forced to compete against one another for funds. If money goes to Sefton, it doesn't go to Newsham and vice versa. One of the best ways of assuring a good future for the parks is to identify what is special and significant about each site. When parks are vandalised and damaged it is hard to do this. However, even vandalism doesn't destroy memories and the affection that residents have for their city's green spaces.
If any of you, or your friends and relatives have stories, memories, pictures, ephemera relating to Liverpool's parks, I'd love to hear from you. The project website is at: http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/researc...ect/index1.htm and there is an email address there if you'd like to send things directly.
All contributions very welcome.
Look out for my short history of the parks, published by English Heritage, which will be out later this year. :gossip:
Hallo Katy,
You might perhaps find this link interesting?? http://www.hilaryburrage.com/liverpo...erpools_parks/
It's some bits of documentation of the comings and goings in the Parks sagas. More to follow..!
Good luck
Hilary
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Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
Well done Chris, by the way the graffiti is still there. Why the council don't clean up the gardens as well as the statues is beyond me?:034:
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Originally Posted by Libertarian
Instead of constantly complaining, why not get of yer ar*e and do something yourself. ????
I have I wrote to the council saying I believe the armies of unemployed layabouts should be put to use cleaning St John's gardens for their benefit money provided through my taxes.:034::034:Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven
Great idea Libertarian. This should have been done 40 years ago when the rot started to set in.:002:
Not a new idea.Quote:
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The unemployed worked on the laying out of Sefton Park in the 1860s, but they didn't call them 'layabouts'.
The stick won't work but the carrot just might.Quote:
Originally Posted by Libertarian
"They" could give a simple lunch and a one-week bus pass to volunteer workers for a day's work for example. And come down thank the volunteers in person.
It has to be voluntary, coercion will not work.