Coloured postcard showing a view of the quarry garden in Boston Park, Rotherham. Pencil: [personal message] [address in Halifax supplied]. Boston Park, Rotherham, was originally part of the grounds of the 18th-century Boston Castle, leased by the local authority for use as a public park from 1876, and finally purchased by them in 1902; it was laid out as a public park by Mr Albiston, the head gardener at the Castle, and its main feature was a quarry garden