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To the left will eventually be Station Road leading to Gidea Park Station which was built in 1910.

The fair had grown and developed, and the council had opened Happy Mount Park (in 1927) to give holiday makers an even more memorable holiday.

In this wide street, cars can park on both sides of the road and still allow for traffic. Cannon Street is one of the oldest parts of the town, and dates from the 1850s.

The handcart with its large hamper which was parked by the pavement in picture 76862 (p.42-43), is still in the same spot.

The area beyond the gates is now a car park and bottle bank.

The park had focussed around Prospect Hill House, now known as The Mansion House, which after being a problem building for years is now a pub/restaurant with marvellous views south from its hilltop

Behind the photographer is the Reading Blue Coat School, founded in 1646, which in 1946 moved to Holme Park at Sonning from Bath Road in Reading.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

Beyond the boats is the north bank of the river, and behind the trees is the large Russell Park, laid out in the late 1880s.

Wheel tracks in the sand indicate that visitors were using the beach for parking, just as today.

Where the cars are parked houses have reappeared.

The original village was in front of the manor house: such was the power and influence of the local landowner in those days, that the settlement was demolished and rebuilt outside the park boundary.

The Corporation, at that time, leased out grazing rights to the park and the then tenant, although not objecting to the bandstand being built, asked for a reduction in rent owing to the loss of pasture

Just sufficiently sheltered from the cruel east wind, the plants here flourished, and the parks department of the local council were rightly proud of the attractive way in which they bloomed throughout

The one car would find it more difficult to park nowadays.

The building on the left was the Constitutional Club; it was built in a Bedford Park Domestic Revival style around 1890 with steep tiled roofs and much use of brick banding.

This is one of the unmade roads to the west of Rectory Road—perhaps Hillcrest Chase or Rectory Park Drive. St Michael's church looms in the background.

The finger to the right of the tower on the river bank is an obelisk, marking the opening of Rock Park.

The Crown has changed little since this photograph was taken although the parking facilities have increased on the road at the front of the building.

This fine public park in the heart of Neath was opened in 1897.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

Prenton Park, the home of Tranmere Rovers, is not far away, so the pub would be busy on home match days. The arrangement of the traffic light poles looks rather unusual.

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.