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John Darby of High Park Farm operated a substantial milk delivery service, using a horse-drawn float.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre.

There was still plenty of on-street parking at this time, before Accrington developed various car parks. It is still striving to keep parking free.

Raphael Park`s peace and quiet is ideal for taking baby for a promenade in a beautiful perambulator. This spot was part of the Gidea Hall Estate bought by Herbert H Raphael in 1897.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre and covers an area of seventeen acres.

The park is a pleasant interlude between Birkenhead Road and Meols Parade on the seafront.

In 1893 the house and park were offered for sale. The house was purchased and given to the town in 1895 by Felix Cobbold, on condition that the Corporation bought the park.

Opened in 1853, Bellasis Park, as it was then called, was one of the earliest public parks in the north-east.

Williamson Park was begun in the late 1860s as a scheme for the unemployed; they were to turn the bleak moorland and the quarries, that had once provided so much stone for the building of Lancaster

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

The grounds of Mote Park have been used as a public park for many years.

Since the park's inception the provision of pleasure boats has proved a major attraction.

The royal connections with this park probably go back further that with other parks, beginning with Edward I (1272-1307), when the area was part of the Manor of Shene; the name was changed to Richmond

Both Avenham and Miller Park were started around 1864.

The introduction of 'No Parking' markings along parts of the Esplanade was inevitable. The trend for day tripping and the increase in car ownership were to prove a bane for the council.

Three tennis courts and a bowling green were added to the Thomastown Park in the inter- war years.

The design for this park cleverly concealed a mineral railway line, which crossed the park from Bank Hall Colliery (owned by the Thursbys) to join the mineral tramway, which served Rowley Colliery.

Arrowe Park is quite a few miles from the centre of Birkenhead. The estate was bought by Birkenhead Corporation in 1927 from the Leverhulme (Port Sunlight) family.

This picture looks down the village of Wales towards Kiveton Park, both pit villages which boomed from 1867 during the heyday of the South Yorkshire coalfield.

Scott Park was opened on 18 August 1895; it was named after Alderman Scott, who had died in 1891 leaving £10,000 in his will to open a public park.

Park Lane, running from the western ends of Oxford Street and Piccadilly, was a narrow road down the side of Hyde Park.

Palmer Park was laid out on land bought for the town by George Palmer in the 1880s, and his statue, formerly in the town centre, is now in the park.

John Darby of High Park Farm operated a substantial milk delivery service, using a horse-drawn float.

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.