PHILIPS PARK History Walk Bank Street 25 mins approx Footbridge Bridge MILES Dean Lane PLATTING Walking route

A 6 0 1 0 NEWTON HEATH 200 metres OLDHAM ROAD A62 A 6 6 4

CHEETHAM HILL ROAD A665 ALAN TURING WAY CLAYTON Philips Park Victoria ROCHDALE ROAD GREAT ANCOATS STREET Philips Park A S H T O N N E W R O A D A 6 6 2

0 1 0 6 A LONDON ROAD Cemetery BESWICK Piccadilly CITY CENTRE A S H T O N O L D R O A D A 6 3 5 Wildflower ARDWICK A 5 7 ( M ) MANCUNIAN WAY Ashburys A 3 4 H Y D E R O A D A 5 7 A 6 Meadow Where is Philips Park? Tulip Valley

K L O C M E D Allotments R IV E R Play Area Community A Orchard L A Site of the Bandstand N Bowling Philips Park T E E R T S K N A B Green Peace T Garden The Pond U Showfield Site of the Swimming Pool R Sports I Site of the Area Viaduct N Russian Guns

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W FAIRCLOUGH STREET A Memorial Y Drinking Fountain

Visitor Centre Northr STUART STREET 200 metres PHILIPS PARK Walk Information

Information The Water Fountain The Railway Viaduct The Peace Garden Visitor Centre The drinking fountain, no longer functional, The railway viaduct was built in the early The Peace Garden was developed on was installed in 1896 to mark the 50th 1900s to link the main line with the the site of the first bowling green to be Located at the entrance on Stuart Street, anniversary of the opening of the park. power station and the chemical works in opened in Manchester (1872). The site open 9am – 5pm. Clayton and Openshaw. The ash from the The Pond was converted into the Peace Garden in Main Entrances furnaces was taken along this railway into 2002. The adjacent bowling green was The pond is all that remains of the river Clayton Vale to be dumped. The National • Stuart Street via first opened in 1882. that ran from the SE to NW corners of Cycling Centre now sits on the site of the The Russian Guns • Fairclough Street off Bank Street the park before emptying into the River old power station. Clayton Vale is now a Arriving By Bus Medlock. There were originally 3 ponds reclaimed park and in 2006 was given the To the south of the bowling green once in 1849. This later rose to 6 ponds that status of being a Local Nature Reserve. stood a pair of Russian cannons from the • From : the were used for boating, paddling and Crimean War. They were presented by Tulip Valley (Amphitheatre) 217 and 218 buses (Manchester to encouraging wild fowl. In 1865, all the the War Office and placed in the park in Tameside General Hospital) stop on ponds were filled to a shallow depth for The first ornamental flowerbeds were 1857. The guns were removed in 1941 Alan Turing Way near the park. the safety of ice skaters in winter. The sown in1847. In its heyday during the and melted down to help with the war • Other services include the 53 remaining pond is the wild fowl pond. 1920s, the display in Tulip Valley used effort (together with the park railings). around 60,000 bulbs and attracted (Cheetham Hill to Old Trafford), the 54 The Swimming Pool The Lodge (Cheetham to the Trafford Centre) and visitors from across the region. In1891 Manchester’s first open air swimming This is the only lodge left standing in the 185 (Sportcity to North Manchester The River Medlock pool was opened on this site. One of the General Hospital). the park. It was commissioned from ponds was converted using white tiles for The River Medlock starts above Oldham Alfred Derbyshire who also designed • Visit www.gmpte.com for bus times. the bottom and glazed brick for the sides and flows down to empty into the River Manchester’s Palace Theatre. It originally Arriving By Car at a cost of £3,000. The resulting pool Irwell in the centre of Manchester. The cost £529.00 and the main gates cost had no heating and measured 200 x 70ft. Medlock has long been an important £48.15p. The lodge was refurbished in Car parking is available at the nearby This was filled in and closed in 1953. feature of the park. The red brick 2002 and now serves as the park’s visitor Manchester Velodrome. channel that you see today was built In 1912 the pool was used by the centre. after the flood of 1872, when the river Olympic swimming team to train and For more information telephone rose suddenly and tore away part of the acclimatise for the games in Stockholm, 0161 231 3090, or visit the website printworks in Clayton Vale and washed where the swimming was held in a river. at www.philipspark.org.uk away 40 – 50 bodies from the cemetery. The swimming team came with After this disaster the river was lined 2 silvers and 2 bronze medals and the with red bricks to allow the water to flow water polo team came home with the safely through the park. gold medal.