Coloured postcard showing a view in Whitworth Park, Manchester, with George Tinworth's statue of Christ blessing the children. Ink: [personal message] [address in Smyrna (Izmir) supplied]. Whitworth Park, Manchester, was created as a result of the establishment of the Whitworth Trust (founded by the engineer Joseph Whitworth), and it housed the Whitworth Institute, later turned into the Whitworth Art Gallery. Pettigrew's 1929 guide to the Manchester parks describes it as a park mainly for children