3-028-152 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Opening of Stanley Park, Liverpool, 1870. 'The ground taken for this new park is very high, commanding a panorama of South Lancashire and Cheshire, with the sea-coast; the distant mountains of North Wales...some of the North Yorkshire hills...and the Peak of Derbyshire; but these last are commonly obscured by the smoke of the factory districts. The park is agreeably laid out, with a terrace, lawns, and shrubberies, a lake, and bridges over it, arranged by Mr. Kemp, landscape gardener...The land belonging to the Woodlands and Walton Lodge estates, was purchased by the Town Council, with other land adjoining, to the extent of 100 acres. The whole cost of this new park is about £120,000...on the day of its opening...[there were] twenty or thirty thousand persons assembled'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.