Coloured postcard showing a nocturnal view of the Southport Municipal Gardens, with the bandstand and fountain illuminated, and people seated for a performance. Ink: [personal message] [address in London supplied]. The Southport Town Hall was built in 1853, and its precincts on Lord Street were augmented with a bandstand (later destroyed and replaced in the 1980s by a Victorian-style bandstand by Martin Perry), fountain, and flowerbeds