Coloured postcard showing a view of the Italian garden in Greenhead Park, Huddersfield. Ink: [personal message] [address in Devonport supplied]. Greenhead Hall, Huddersfield, was the Ramsden family's private estate, leased from 1870 by Alderman Thomas Denham, who opened the grounds to the public. In 1881, Huddersfield Corporation bought the estate, and it was adapted by the borough surveyor, Richard Swarbrick Dugdale, for use as a municipal park. The lake was filled in in 1954 but restored in 2010; memorials to the Boer War (1905) and First World War (1925), along with a 1930 conservatory, were later added