south hill park history

South Hill is located at 47°7′16″N 122°17′26″W / 47.12111°N 122.29056°W / 47.12111; -122.29056 (47.121080, -122.290506).[3]. The median income for a household in the CDP was $60,524, and the median income for a family was $64,544. This was a mixture of heath and woodland over which the Crown had rights of timber and deer pasturage. com. On 23 October 1951 an auction was held, selling off the contents of the house (figure 14). About 2.6% of families and 4.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.6% of those under age 18 and 3.2% of those age 65 or over. We would like to thank Alison Boyd and Outi Remes for curating the original “The History of South Hill Park” leaflet. Your donation will help us to continue to achieve our mission for world-class exhibitions, education courses and our year round programme of events. of the largest and diverse arts facilities in the country. The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. Park Hill Flats – Sat in the Park Hill Estate in Sheffield is a council estate, not technically abandoned, but empty for renovations. Kids ran amok and vandalism was rife. A theatre was first proposed when south Hill Park became an arts centre. a scallop shell can thus be seen over the main entrance. the construction of a conservatory on the south elevation overlooking the garden. acquired the house as part of an extension of the new town's designated I found some wonderful pictures the other day of my family in the 60's on the Park Hill, including my Grandad Albert in his Park Hill football club kit, and my nan Stella out in Blackpool with the women from a Parkway trip. It was divided into two phases. lakes, situate at Birch W E Gladstone stayed at South Hill in 1893 and planted a holm oak on the east side of the main lawn. In 1893 Moore began, what is believed to be, his only garden work. South Artist Martin Donlin created several artworks for the building. The area was first settled in the 1880s after a military road was built through the area in the 1850s. This encloses a further arched recess containing a rectangular stone trough behind a semicircular pond at ground level which projects into the adjacent gravel path. South Hill Park is a building steeped in history and as always happens with old buildings, many intriguing stories have been formed around the place as the years have gone by. sheena gallagher ( nee grant, norwich row)i live'd there most of my life, No one who did'nt live there, can say anything bad about it at all, we all stuck together and looked after each other, and felt safe,we all lived in a clean enviormental area, ia'm happy i grew up there, many friends, were,bev porter, shaz vains, michele talbot, and family, mandy reaid,shaun fog,peck, andy clues,dave messium,and my best mate tracey grimshaw,and my wonderful husband , who i did not meet on parkhill ,, but spent many fun times in itxxxxxxx, Adam Kell I was on the tram and a very snotty woman with a London accent said" Why don't they just knock them down they are a terrible eyesore i mean no one likes them" i had to restrain myself from shouting at heri think that the park hill flats should be restored.My dad works there sometimes as he is a electrician.he says it would be lovely to get them back to there former glory.Thanks, BBC South YorkshireIf you have any pics of Park Hill you'd like us to add to the site, email them to south.yorkshire@bbc.co.uk. The terrace bar opened in June 1974. Sir Arthur died in 1917 and his widow continued to live in the house until she died in 1929. It stands within fine gardens and the remnants of its original 800 acre park which still features two good lakes, situate at Birch Hill in Bracknell. Following the success of the theatre the council gave the go-ahead for Phase II of the works in 1988 and 1989. Left there in 1982ish to catch the 95 up to Norfolk Comp. An additional award of £3.6 million transformed the exterior setting. Society and the spirit of the community no longer exists as it did in the 60's.Sad but true. The grounds included 30 acres (12 ha) of common land, which William Watts enclosed. A district heating system was installed whereby almost all rubbish could be put down a chute in the sink for it to be mashed up and converted to electricity in the bowels of the flats!