Platt Fields Park
Lakeside public park with an island, sports courts, skate park and a Georgian hall.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Platt Fields Park in Manchester starts on a crowded summer pond a few years after the park opened, with the children of Hulme in the water. It follows the park's early superintendent's report through its tennis courts, football pitches and hired rowing boats, and who was rowing them. You'll also hear about the land before it was a park, and the men who dug its lake one winter. Best heard by the water, facing the island.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Heaton Park
Vast historic parkland with a Georgian hall, boating lake and a relocated Greek-style colonnade.
Chorlton Water Park
Flooded gravel-pit lake and nature reserve on old manor farmland, ringed by woodland paths.
Mayfield Park
Riverside city-centre park where a long-buried river runs free again between lawns, bridges and trees.
Salford Lads Club
Edwardian youth club with a tiled gym, boxing ring and viewing balcony, still open after a century.
Heaton Hall
Neoclassical Wyatt country house with colonnaded wings, painted interiors and parkland views.
Abraham Lincoln Statue
Bronze of a rumpled, plain-clothed president honouring cotton workers who opposed slavery.