Entrance to London Road Playing Fields
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Entrance to London Road Playing Fields
Image: © Marathon Taken: 16 May 2012
Maps from the start of the 20th century show a number of houses along London Road with large gardens stretching back into what is now this park. The largest of these was Baron House, named after Oliver Baron JP, an 18th century barrister. During the 1920s, much of the site became a large gravel pit. Subsequently the pit filled with water and was then reinstated with such items as old buses and trams, before being levelled in the 1930s for playing fields. In the mid 1980s, a campaign was started to preserve the area as a park and it was formally opened as London Road Playing Fields in April 1992. This is the entrance from London Road.
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