Canbury Promenade and Bandstand, Kingston-on-Thames
Information
Title
Canbury Promenade and Bandstand, Kingston-on-Thames
Record type
Ephemera
Original Reference
E/PC/MPG/1/K/2250
Author or creator
Unknown
Date
21 Sep 1905
Scope & content
Coloured postcard showing a view along the Thames in Canbury Gardens, Kingston-on-Thames. Pencil: [personal message] [address in Margate supplied]. Canbury Gardens, Kingston-on-Thames, was an area of grazing land and stone extraction alongside the Thames. In 1887 the decision was taken to turn the area into a public park; designed by the borough surveyor Henry Macaulay, it was opened in 1890