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The Palmerston Residents Association visited the Tommy Patton Memorial Park on the Holywood Road in East Belfast the park sits on the old playing fields of Ashfield School,the park is equipped with a play area for children.  Not very far away there is  another park on the Circular Road Belfast it also has a play area for the young children. We would like to take you back to our two photographs of the play area at Victoria Park, as you can see this park has inadequate facilities for... Read Full Story

The photographs show the model boating lake that was once a play area for young and old alike you would go to the park at anytime and parents with their children using this lake to sail model yachts, motor boats and  radio control boats.  This was a place were the community met, model boat clubs came from Bangor and East Belfast to compete against each other. This pond was always a place where you could go and catch up with the latest models that other enthusiasts had built.  Some were... Read Full Story

The Palmerston Residents Association has fought long and hard to protect our environment we have saved many trees from destruction. We are looking at three photographs of the path up to the swimming baths that one time stood in all its glory, back then Victoria Park was the only park to have an outside swimming baths in Belfast. Many visitors came from all over Northern Ireland just to try the pool out, our first photograph shows the pathway looking down from the pool as you can see it... Read Full Story

Our photographs show the Band Stand, the Children's Play Park and what remains of the Boat House, we must ask why these facilities have been let run down at a time when anti social behaviour is ripe on our street. We hear quite often that our park was used as a drinking den and our young people destroyed it. Victoria Park has been there for many years and in its later life it had more facilities than it has today we see that our park is not very family orientated it has no toilets the... Read Full Story

These are the latest photographs taken by Palmerston Residents Association of Victoria Park and the state of decline it is in. We can see from the first two photographs how the island has washed away with out repair and how the trees on the island are being let fall into the lake because the banks are not being rebuilt. We can also see in our photographs how the lake is allowed to be infested by rubbish and plastic bags which may result in a hazard to one of our children who may try... Read Full Story

The Palmerston Residents Association can report the Council has once more closed the gate to half open as our photograph shows. This photograph was taken on the 28th September 2008, we had hoped that the Council had at last removed the bar to make access through the gate for the disabled and young mothers with prams much easier. We can confirm that the Council did open the gate to its full extent until a couple of weeks ago once more we have to ask the question who is the real friend... Read Full Story

The Palmerston Residents Association visited the Tommy Patton Memorial Park on the Holywood Road in East Belfast the park sits on the old playing fields of Ashfield School,the park is equipped with a play area for children. Not very far away there is another park on the Circular Road Belfast it also has a play area for the young children. We would like to take you back to our two photographs of the play area at Victoria Park, as you can see this park has inadequate facilities for children... Read Full Story

The Palmerston Residents Association visited the Tommy Patton Memorial Park on the Holywood Road in East Belfast the park sits on the old playing fields of Ashfield School,the park is equipped with a play area for children.  Not very far away there is  another park on the Circular Road Belfast it also has a play area for the young children. We would like to take you back to our two photographs of the play area at Victoria Park, as you can see this park has inadequate facilities for... Read Full Story

The Palmerston Residents Association visited the Tommy Patton Memorial Park on the Holywood Road in East Belfast the park sits on the old playing fields of Ashfield School,the park is equipped with a play area for children.  Not very far away there is  another park on the Circular Road Belfast it also has a play area for the young children. We would like to take you back to our two photographs of the play area at Victoria Park, as you can see this park has inadequate facilities for... Read Full Story