Now this image has already brought back a flood of memories when it was posted by Dave Kennedy on facebook recently.
It comes from a wonderful collection of photographs which were taken by Jack Kennedy and which his son Dave has posted on flickr.*
This is one of my favourites because it includes a view of Longford Hall and that bandstand.
Now every good park should have a bandstand.
They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which reflected both civic pride and that long history of listening to music in the open air.
I remember the one in Telegraph Hill Park which by the time I knew it had become a sad and forlorn thing.
It had long ago lost its cast iron pillars and roof and was pretty much just an abandoned lump which you past on the way through the park to school.
But here Jack caught the bandstand in Longford Park when it was still pretty impressive and out there in the distance is the hall which I should remember but sadly don’t.
It was a place I have written about, and must have passed plenty of times but just stubbornly refuses to be remembered.**
So I shall close with a thank you to Dave for allowing e to share it and suggest you look at the rest of the photographs in the series.*
Picture; Longford Hall and bandstand, date unknown, courtesy of Dave Kennedy
*jack kennedy black & white photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/8188211@N02/sets/72157647573263194
**Longford Hall, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Longford%20Hall
This is one of my favourites because it includes a view of Longford Hall and that bandstand.
Now every good park should have a bandstand.
They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries which reflected both civic pride and that long history of listening to music in the open air.
I remember the one in Telegraph Hill Park which by the time I knew it had become a sad and forlorn thing.
It had long ago lost its cast iron pillars and roof and was pretty much just an abandoned lump which you past on the way through the park to school.
But here Jack caught the bandstand in Longford Park when it was still pretty impressive and out there in the distance is the hall which I should remember but sadly don’t.
So I shall close with a thank you to Dave for allowing e to share it and suggest you look at the rest of the photographs in the series.*
Picture; Longford Hall and bandstand, date unknown, courtesy of Dave Kennedy
*jack kennedy black & white photography https://www.flickr.com/photos/8188211@N02/sets/72157647573263194
**Longford Hall, http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Longford%20Hall
What happened to the bandstand was it broken up melted down oris it rusting away somewhere
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