Coloured postcard showing a view of the drinking fountain in Boggart Hole Clough, Manchester. Ink: [personal message] [address in Nottingham supplied]. Boggart Hole Clough was an open space used for public meetings etc in Manchester, before the Council bought the site in 1894 for use as a public park. Today (since 2012) it is officially a nature reserve. Information on the history of its design is difficult to find: Pettigrew's 1929 handbook to the Manchester parks at least indicates some of its development