Parks - General Information (file number 13)

Correspondence between Stretford UDC Surveyor & Clerk regarding new recreation ground; memo & plan detailing land offered to Council by Mr Fulford for entrance to Gorse Hill playground from Chester Road; land dimensions, Victoria Park extension; recreation grounds- tenant's compensation for crops, manures, buildings etc on acquired land at rear of Chester Rd & Big Stone Farm forming part of Gorse Hill recreation grounds; correspondence between surveyor & firms regarding quotes & subsequent provision of iron railing, fencing, seats, tennis nets, bowls, jacks, croquet balls, notice boards,asphalte paving, plants, privets, charcoal, new water services, urinals & conveniences; 1905 notice that Stretford UDC have applied to Local Government for sanction to borrow £29,117 for purposes of Public Walks & Pleasure Grounds ( Seymour, Gorse Hill, Hullard & Victoria Parks & inquiry will be held into the application; details of Local Government Board inquiry; surveyor's report on a pair of bronze tablets that have been given as a gift and fixed on the main entrance gates to Victoria Park; statement of rents debited to the Council; invitation to tender for taking down of swings from Hullard Park & refixing them in Seymour Park; Parks Committee report on proposed works at Seymour Park; further update on each park by Parks & Cemetery Committee; report of nuisance - erection of swings by Local Authority near private house; tenders invited for supply & delivery of turf suitable for laying of bowling green. Statement showing the cost of manual labour from the Highways Dept on the additional parks & recreations grounds; tenders invited for a greenhouse & new bowl-houses at Hullard Park & asphalting of the tennis court at Victoria Park; bowling green statistics; bowling green regulations poster; public lawn tennis regulations; statement of receipts & number of bowlers; Summer Time Act 1916.