Coloured postcard showing a view of the lake and bandstand in Hillsborough Park, Sheffield. Ink: [personal message] [address in Beaufort supplied]. Hillsborough Park, Sheffield, was originally the grounds of Hillsborough Hall, a house of the 1870s; after the death of its last private owner, the silversmith James Willis Dixon, in 1890, the estate was divided and Sheffield Council acquired the house and its precincts; the park was opened in 1896