Search Results

Many houses carry the shield of the Ancaster family, for this was an estate village from the 1760s until 1925, when the Normanton Park Estate of the Earl of Ancaster was sold and dispersed.

The tall chimney rises from Park Mill, whose mules still operated in the early 1980s.

The park was an essential element of Victorian town development, and here is centred on a memorial to those killed in the South African wars.

In the Fifties, for those who had cars, it was easy to drive into London, especially on a Sunday, and park in Exhibition Road.

Berry Head is the southern limit of Torbay, and a country park as well.

The left bank was marshy meadow, but was bought by the council in 1907 and is now a public park with a popular riverside promenade.

1997 saw the park mark its centenary in style with celebrations that recalled its Victorian origins.

In this picture the 15th-century spire of St Nicholas's church overlooks the park, which incorporates the tree-lined drive to the former vicarage, demolished in 1970.

During the reign of Henry V (1413-22), several pools were constructed, probably for the Earl of Warwick, in what was later to become Sutton Park.

When the area enclosed by the Inner Circle was returned to the park, it was laid out afresh as Queen Mary's Gardens in honour of the Queen and King George V's Silver Jubilee.

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

The neatly mown lawns and carefully maintained flowerbeds surrounding Cheam Park House are viewed from the vantage point above the porticoed entrance; we are looking down onto the sweeping gravelled drive

One of the highly successful Austin Minis is parked in the foreground.

The central area, with car park and bus shelter, was redesigned in 2002.

Taken from the corner of Arrowe Park Road, this photograph is looking east along The Village.

Sham timbered lodges and a refreshment pavilion graced the newly-laid-out park, and mature trees retained from the Abbey Fields formed an essential part of the emparkment scheme.

Although the park has been municipalised, it is an essential green lung which must never be forfeited to any so-called development pressures under any circumstances.

A Mini is parked outside the Red Lion pub on the right.

The store that was Bridge's shop in W305026 (pages 68-69) is now five years later run by F Park.

By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.

The number 84 bus seems to have a clear run; it need not be too concerned about the sole road marking, `No Parking`, at the Haywards Road junction.

On the opposite side of the bank is Bushy Park, and in the distance we can see the graceful Hampton Court Bridge.

Victoria Road, leading to Heath Park on the south side of the railway, provides the photographer with a catwalk for an Edwardian fashion parade.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road.