Today Bygones visits Normanton Park and our archive produced this fascinating series of images from the early part of the 20th Century onwards. The friends of Normanton Park are holding a celebration event on Sunday September 12, between 3pm and 5pm (see Letters, Page 14).
A playground scene with very smartly dressed children, many of whom are wearing hats
A fancy dress parade at Normanton Park on June 8, 1946, provided by Maureen Austick of Nether Heage. Maureen is wearing the Union Flag top.
This picture was captioned as the tea rooms on the south edge of the park, “an example of Herbert Aslin’s central improvement scheme of 1931-33”
Children from Lower Dale Road Methodist Sunday School during a Whitsuntide treat in 1946
A damaged German fighter aircraft on view. No date was provided, but perhaps readers can enlighten us about how it came to be there
The entrance gates to Normanton Park in Chatsworth Street in the early 20th Century
Clowning around at the Co-op fun day in 2004
A floral clock dislay around the 1950s or 1960s in this photo given to the Friends of Normanton Park
This was described as a tank which stood next to the tea rooms during the war years
The children’s play area in the early years of the park, which opened in 1909
Park visitors in Edwardian dress