Platt Fields
Introduction
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Platt Fields
Image: © Gerald England Taken: 11 Mar 2017
The Platt Fields estate was purchased by Manchester Corporation for public use in 1907 following a local campaign. The park was landscaped and a lake created by unemployed labour during the hard winter of 1908-1909. In the background is Holy Trinity Church which was built in 1845-46, at the expense of Thomas Carrill Worsley of Platt Hall. http://rusholmearchive.org/holy-trinity-church-platt-lane In the foreground is the Queen Elizabeth Coronation Fountain, which was presented to the city in 1953 and was re-sited in the park from Piccadilly Gardens in 2002 by the Friends of Platt Fields http://www.plattfields.org/ A few years ago it was part of a rose garden Image but is now surrounded by daffodils.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.449935
Longitude
-2.222058