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The park was laid out by railway engineer Francis Webb, Richard Moon, mayor of Crewe in 1888, and garden designer Edward Kemp. [2]A story that the park is a product of 1880s railway politics when the London & North Western Railway bought the land and donated it to the town to prevent the Great Western Railway from building a railway line through it is almost certainly untrue.
A committee named the Crewe South African Volunteers' and Reservists' Memorial Fund Committee was established, which represented local volunteers rather than regular serving men. The committee asked the Crewe Borough Council for a site in Queens Park, and the council gave them the most prominent position in the park. At the time a bandstand ...
[7] [a] The listed buildings in the park are its two lodges, a clock tower, and a memorial to those lost in the South African Wars. Later, in 1922, came a memorial to the First World War, which was originally sited in the Market Square. [9] In 2020 another war memorial was listed to remember workers from the Crewe tranship shed. [10]
Jubilee Gardens are in Hightown and there is also a park on Westminster Street. In 2019, Crewe hosted Pride in the Park (previously held at Tatton Park in 2018) in Queens Park. The 2020 event, which had been due to take place on 12 September, was cancelled on 20 May, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [65]
Queen's Park was given to the people of Crewe for their recreation and relaxation by the London and North Western Railway Company, the major employers in the town. It was designed by F. W. Webb, the chief mechanical engineer of the company, together with Edward Kemp. The clock tower was paid for by the employees of the company, and was designed ...
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