Melbourne Park
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Melbourne Park by John Sutton as part of the Geograph project.
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Melbourne Park
Image: © John Sutton Taken: 11 May 2010
Melbourne Park, with its children's playground, pavilion and many football and cricket pitches, was developed along with the western suburbs in the 1930s. This view across the park, from the Newlyn Gardens entrance, shows redbrick St Margaret's Church on Aspley Lane, which also dates from the thirties. The slight rise in the ground from which the photograph was taken is all that remains of the embankment of the National Coal Board railway system which connected Cinderhill Colliery and the landsale wharf on Nuthall Road. There was a huge fan of sidings to the right of here (where the Staindale Drive housing development now is), which lasted into the 1960s.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.970633
Longitude
-1.1926