Coloured postcard of the lake and bridge in Birkenhead Park. Ink: [personal message] [address in Newport supplied]. Birkenhead Park was designed by Joseph Paxton, and the works carried out under his foreman Edward Kemp, who then became park superintendent. The park was opened in 1847; the grand entrance gateway was designed by Lewis Hornblower. After the First World War, the central carriage drive was planted up to reduce the intrusion of dust from automobiles into the park, and a conservatory, later demolished, constructed alongside the hedges