Coloured postcard showing a view of a large tree in Heaton Park, Manchester, with part of Heaton House visible in the middle distance. Ink: [personal message] [address in London supplied]. Heaton Park, Manchester, was originally the grounds of Heaton Hall, a house remodelled in the 1770s by James Wyatt. The property was sold to the Corporation in 1902, and the landscape garden, originally by William Emes, developed for use as a public park