Friends of Central Park Plymouth
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FoCP are members of:
Open Spaces Society: http://www.oss.org.uk/
Plymouth Community Partnership http://www.pcp.org.uk/
About Friends of Central Park:
Constitution of Friends of Central Park
History
According to the Encyclopaedia of Plymouth History:
"In June 1925 it was announced that the City was to purchase 201 acres of land from Lord St Levan. By 1929, the Park comprised 241 acres all sold on the basis that it was to form a place of recreation, free from any development … Home Park, the ground used by the Argyle Athletic Club, predecessor of Plymouth Argyle Football Club, had existed since 1901.
Plans drawn up included tennis courts, bowling greens, three children's playgrounds, a children's pool, a boating pool, a putting green, a running track and playing fields, as well as a nursery and botanical gardens, from where the City was to be supplied with flowers and shrubs, a "wild" garden and an aviary.
Central Park was finally opened to the public at a ceremony led by the Mayor, Mr J Clifford Tozer, on Wednesday July 29th 1931.
copyright Brian Moseley
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