Southport revisited - Hesketh Park
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The photograph on this page of Southport revisited - Hesketh Park by Oliver Dixon as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 11 Aug 2021
Back in the 1950s, on the occasional winter evening, a friend and I used to assemble with others by the lodge waiting for the Borough Meteorologist cum Astronomer to guide us to the Observatory in the centre of the Park for an evening's stargazing. The Observatory and its telescope are both of venerable age and are still in use today.
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