Category Archives: History

New Year 2021

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering “it will be happier”.~ Alfred Lord Tennyson – The Foresters 1892 2020 A Year of Learning Well, 2020 did not work out as we had planned, but overall it is probably … Continue reading →

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St Oswald’s Primary School – History Field Trip

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

We welcomed 90 children from St Oswalds’s Cof E Primary School today,  who came to hear about the history of the Park. They heard the stories of what their parents, grandparents and great grandparents might have done in the Park … Continue reading →

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SLEDGING IN THE PARK IN THE 1980’S

Posted on November 29, 2015 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Parkinson’s Park has always been ideal for sledging – ranging from the easy to the difficult slopes. Christine King has sent us an interesting historical photo of sledging in the Park in the 1980’s, when the lower slope was less … Continue reading →

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Bottom Path is Back After A Decade Of Neglect

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

It seems like forever, that local people have been trying to get the old track along the bottom of the Park restored.  But now, at long last, thanks to Meadfleet,  we at last have a mown path that we can … Continue reading →

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Is it spring yet?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by josiebrooks

Have you noticed that the days are getting slowly but steadily longer? Have you managed to drag yourself out of the house into the muddy, windswept and bitterly cold outdoors long enough to spot the first signs of life such … Continue reading →

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1926

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Graham Hogben has sent us this photo of the fields that became the Park 10 years later in 1937.  The road is Netherfield Road,  newly made up, and the buildings  in the middle are Greenshaw Terrace, with the two F … Continue reading →

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Park Maintenance Update

Posted on July 3, 2014 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Five foot high grass,  an ugly clay mound that would not look out-of-place in a mining district,  and dog excrement everywhere, is not exactly what the Friends had in mind for the Park in 2014.   Since last  year we have … Continue reading →

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AGM Presentation – All Our Stories, History of Parkinson’s Park

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Attached is the presentation given at the AGM about showing the results of our All Our Stories research about the History of Parkison’s Park.  This is just the tip of the wealth of data we now have,  and which will … Continue reading →

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Marking the Start of the World War One Centenary

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

On Saturday 26th April 2014,  seven Friends of Parkinson’s Park came to help dig over and prepare the Wildflower area for planting and poppy-seed sowing – as part of this year’s World War One Centenary. The area is due to … Continue reading →

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Crompton Parkinson’s Glass Works 1935

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Courtesy of the excellent Aireborough Historical Society,  is a photograph of staff in the glass works of Crompton Parkinson in 1935 – anyone recognize anyone?

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