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| Keywords: project 365 project365 liverpool newsham park newshampark bandstand neglected outdoor yard plant grass garden This perhaps isn't the shot I thought you'd end up with from today, but in the absence of much that's any better, here it is. I started the day with a walk round the Park taking a slightly unusual route that took in the rarely seen Newsham Park bandstand. There's many a regular park user who will be thinking "...but Newsham Park doesn't have a bandstand." It really does. This very neglected, and currently unsafe, piece of architecture stands at the south end of the park where few people venture, though it was once fabulous. Set in a floral garden with wrought iron railings everywhere, this stood close to an ornamental fountain and next to two bowling greens and a pavilion. How times change. The bowling greens are still there, though the pavilion is gone and the greens are overgrown and unusable. The bandstand itself has some cheap and nasty fencing around it to try and keep people off, and it hasn't really changed at all since Laura photographed it in 2008. Could they both be restored? Yes. But we need a reason. I've sat down with the Council who have said to me "find us a club that will regularly bowl there and we'll restore the greens. Find me a band that will regularly play there and we could maybe talk about the bandstand." I didn't get too far with either of them. Crown green bowling anyone? This perhaps isn't the shot I thought you'd end up with from today, but in the absence of much that's any better, here it is. I started the day with a walk round the Park taking a slightly unusual route that took in the rarely seen Newsham Park bandstand. There's many a regular park user who will be thinking "...but Newsham Park doesn't have a bandstand." It really does. This very neglected, and currently unsafe, piece of architecture stands at the south end of the park where few people venture, though it was once fabulous. Set in a floral garden with wrought iron railings everywhere, this stood close to an ornamental fountain and next to two bowling greens and a pavilion. How times change. The bowling greens are still there, though the pavilion is gone and the greens are overgrown and unusable. The bandstand itself has some cheap and nasty fencing around it to try and keep people off, and it hasn't really changed at all since Laura photographed it in 2008. Could they both be restored? Yes. But we need a reason. I've sat down with the Council who have said to me "find us a club that will regularly bowl there and we'll restore the greens. Find me a band that will regularly play there and we could maybe talk about the bandstand." I didn't get too far with either of them. Crown green bowling anyone? | ||||
