Leisure & Recreation in Hoole: Difference between revisions

[[File:5LRA5 1904 Opening of Hoole Public Park.jpg|center|thumb|''<small>The opening of Hoole Public Park in 1904. Chairman of Hoole Urban District Council, William Williams sits to the right of Robert Yerburgh M.P. who addresses the public. Mrs Louise Williams, wife of William Williams sits to his left.</small>'']]

Robert Yerburgh, it was reported in the Chester Courant, opened the gate to Hoole Park with a silver key which had been presented to him.

 

The township of Hoole was developing rapidly: by 1899 three hundred houses a year were being built and the population was increasing. Because a park and recreation ground for the benefit and recreation of the residents and children was seen as an important improvement, after 1904 there were plans to extend the very popular park, at the public expense, almost immediately.

 

In 1910, the Council purchased a further three acres of land between the established Public Park and Hoole Road. Before 1908, Canadian Avenue was not a through road; it was laid from Hoole Lane to the corner of the Public Park. There was a suggestion that the through road could be named ‘Park Road’, because it would run along the frontage of the land which the Council eventually purchased to extend the park in 1910.