Sujet

Opening of Stanley Park, Liverpool, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

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.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A48_271

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Droits gérés

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51,5Mo (2,9Mo) / 48,5cm x 26,6cm / 5728 x 3145 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors park building buildings England people group crowd crowds opening ceremony arts flag flags pollution art British ceremonial polluted pavilion Stanley Park location Victorian century banner Britain newspapers press print B&W Liverpool Merseyside air quality standard engraved engraving 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century Opening Ceremony amenities The Print Collector Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN outside newspaper Unknown Edward Kemp Edward Kemp green space 19th-century The Illustrated London News