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Queen's Park, Swindon, Wiltshire


Queen's Park has four entrances - from Drove Road, Groundwell Road, York Road and Durham Street.  The park is Grade II listed - listing details can be seen at the:  Historic England  website.  It was opened on 30th May 1953 by Sir Noel Arkell (High Sheriff of Wiltshire) to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.  These photographs were taken in 2012 - the Diamond Jubilee year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.

We strolled around the park one evening in May taking these photographs as we went, apart from the first photograph, they are in order of our walk which started by the Durham Street entrance, turning right to follow the lake around, then approaching the old Hot House (now ruins), stopping off at the memorial garden and completing the circle back to where we started.  There are plenty more photographs to be taken of the park and I'm sure we will return to take some more.

Queen's Park
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Commemoration stone
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Taken from same place as previous photograph in 1986.  Notice the Hot House in the distance
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The former Hot House
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'Turtle Storm'
by Joseph Ingleby
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Inside the former Hot House - this was the first area you entered into. It felt hot and sticky and had gravel on the floor with strange looking plants growing in it. One wall (or two) had a painting of the natural terrain of these plants. Quite exotic for Swindon!
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This was the hottest room - it had a pond in it and a banana tree which produced real bananas - wonderful!
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May is the time for the lilac trees to bloom - they smell divine
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Looking towards the Drove Road entrance
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Mesothelioma
Memorial Garden
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Opened 8th April 2003 by the Mayor of Swindon, Councillor Stan Pajak
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Entrance into the Secret Garden - this used to be the Rose Garden
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'Gorilla'
by Tom Gleeson
in Queens Park.
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