WARD JACKSON PARK - List Entry

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    "A late C19 municipal park founded by public subscription in memory of Ward Jackson, one of Hartlepool's benefactors. HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT Ralph Ward Jackson (d 1880), a local industrialist, was one of the benefactors of West Hartlepool. In later life he met with financial troubles and a fund was set up by the townspeople in acknowledgement of what he had done for the area, to purchase an annuity to help support him in his old age. Following Jackson's sudden death, it was decided that the money so far collected should go towards the founding of a public park to be named in his honour. The land chosen for purchase was an area of agricultural land known as the Old Cow Pasture on the Tunstall Hall estate, a little to the north-east of Tunstall Hall. Development of the amenity fell to the Town Improvement Commissioners who used a loan of £5000 for the work...."
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    Historic England
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    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001349
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    Added by: Simon Cotterill
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