Sepia-tinted card showing a view of the bandstand in West Park, Ilkley (now Darwin Gardens). West View Park, Ilkley, is a late 19th-century park about which it is difficult to find historical information. In 1998 it was voted to remodel the park, to emphasise its connection with Charles Darwin, who had taken the waters there and was staying in Ilkley when the Origin of Species was first published; it was redeveloped as Darwin Gardens between 2000 and 2002