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Dinosaurs in the Park was a walk-through show of 39 life-sized, animatronic dinosaur replicas. It took place between 19th May and 11th June 2023 in Cottage […]
Parkruns are held every Saturday morning in about 1,200 locations in the UK and abroad. Each one is a community event organised by volunteers and people […]
In an echo of the cycle races held in the park between 1944 and 1959, Central Park provided the stage for a cycling festival on Sunday, […]
Two Plymouth University students, Steve Toze and Nigel Muntz, were keen mountain bikers and Steve started a magazine for the sport called “Shred or Dead” in […]
Between 1990 and 1995, Heineken sponsored free-admission music festivals in city parks across the country. They were staged over four days and held in and around […]
Nearly five inches of rain fell on Central Park on Monday, 28th July 1969, and the floodwaters provided a brief opportunity for wild swimming, as these […]
After distinguished war service, various escapades in South America and farming in Devon, Ross Salmon joined the BBC as a presenter in the 1960s and later […]
As part of her teacher training, Sandra Bowden (nee Fray) observed how children used the facilities in Milehouse playground and this is an extract from her […]
A small book of “Regulations as to Bowling and Putting Greens, Miniature Golf Course and Tennis Courts” was issued by the Town Clerk in 1966, Measuring […]
In the late 1960s, there were attempts to establish kart racing as a regular activity in Central Park. References are few but a letter to the […]
Remarkably, a fox hunt took place in Central Park on 21st January 1966. The zoo had been losing its ornamental fowl and penguins to fox raids […]
Before Plymouth’s new civic theatre, the Theatre Royal, opened in 1982, theatrical productions were staged in a very large tent, otherwise known as a Cinerama or […]
Opened in 1962, Plymouth Zoo was hugely popular, attracting 50,000 visitors a year during its heyday. It incorporated a quarantine facility where imported animals were kept […]
People’s enjoyment of the park depends on those working in it to keep it tidy and well-maintained, although much has changed since this picture of a […]
Tony Hooper’s father, Harry Hooper, had been an apprentice boatbuilder at Mashford Bros, Cremyll and, as well as making model boats, he made pedal cars for […]
Even before the Second World War had ended, the Western Morning News reported in August 1944 that the first massed-start scratch cycle race to be held […]
Motor cycle races were held in the Home Park stadium before 1930 when its oval banked track was replaced by terraces on a more rectangular plan. […]
The opening programme in 1931 stated that two greens were being provided of special construction with sea-washed turf obtained from Lancashire. They were completed in 1932 […]
Agricultural shows have taken place in the Exhibition Field above Pennycomequick, now part of Central Park, on eight occasions. The first was the Bath and West […]
