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100 acres was considered enough for a park, and the rest was made available for what was to become Park Road with North and South Parades.

Opened in October 1854, the park covered around sixteen acres, eight of which comprised the old Town Field; the remainder was purchased from an adjoining estate.

A view along Chesterfield Avenue, the main drive through Phoenix Park . The park is the largest urban park in Europe, five times the size of London's Hyde Park.

In 1893 the Council controlled five parks.

Alderman T Miller presented the land for the park (11 acres) in 1864.

From 1935 the station and the Broadway were the hub of the Elm Park Estate. The Grays Co-operative Society shops on the right are now the Post Office and Elm Park Pharmacy.

In 1900 Thomastown Park, built on the site of an old quarry, was the first public park in the Borough. Situated east of the town, the total area of the park covers 17 acres.

East of the Central Avenue/Bridgford Road junction is Bridgford Park; the house's extensive grounds are now a very popular public park.

For most of the century the city's parks retained their popularity and were maintained meticulously, only in the last quarter of the century suffering from a lack of management and care.

Trafford Park, and Trafford Hall in the park, was the family home of the Traffords and later the de Traffords from 1770 until 1870.

This is a wonderfully patriotic photograph of the monument to Lancashire lad Sir Robert Peel, standing in the park named after him.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre.

This photograph shows Scott Park when the plantings had yet to come to maturity. The memorial is to the founder of the park. The park's layout indicates its ornamental nature.

Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake. The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.

Both the town centre and the High Street in general face increasing competition in the form of 'out of town' shopping, following the creation of the retail park.

Here we see an almost deserted Queen's Park, with just one customer for a rowing boat on the park's lake.The park opened on 20 June 1887 in Queen Victoria's Jubilee year.

This building at the foot of Park Lane, with its stuccoed walls, pedimented porch, and ornamental iron gates, was built around 1820 as the lodge to Cheam Park House.

Overstone Park has for years been a leisure facility for nearby Northampton.

Nash's great early 19th century urban scheme, his 'Royal Mile', led north to terminate in Regents Park.

Sutton Park is surrounded on all sides by suburbia. Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

Polar bears, brown bears and black bears were all kept in the same rather basic enclosure at the Flamingo Zoo Park at Kirby Misperton, between York and Malton, when this picture was taken.

An ornate 19th-century fountain graces the park. This is one of three parks in Darwen, all very different.

Sutton Park is surrounded on all sides by suburbia. Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

Until the mid 19th century, Abingdon grew little beyond its Tudor limits, but in the 1860s an estate of villas around a public park was set out to the north of Ock Street.