St. Paul's Garden, Huddersfield

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This page is a bare-bones entry for a location which appears on an historic Ordnance Survey map. More detailed information may eventually be added...

Details

  • appears on maps: 1890 [#880], 1905 [#92]
  • location: triangle of land bounded by Ramsden Street, Shore Bank & Commercial Street, Huddersfield
  • status: no longer exists exactly as shown on historic maps, however a similar grass verge remains alongside the University of Huddersfield's Creative Arts Building

The garden was laid out in 1888 and the name "St. Paul's Garden" was formally agreed upon at the July 1888 Town Council meeting. The same meeting also requested that the Chief Constable give instructions to the local constables to lock the gates each evening and then unlock them the following morning.

In August 1891, concerns were raised at the Town Council meeting about the damage caused to the shrubs and bedding plants by children running amok in the garden.[1] This seems to have continued to be an issue and recommendations were made in July 1914 to "erect unclimbable railings" and to level the central mound at a cost of £65 15s.[2]

Discovering Old Huddersfield

Extract from Discovering Old Huddersfield (1993-2002) by Gordon & Enid Minter:

Whilst driving along the ring-road look out for a grassy bank on the left opposite to Zetland Street. The bank itself is not of any great interest except that it is the approximate location of a tiny public park called St. Paul's Garden which was once suggested as a suitable site for Sir John William Ramsden's Jubilee Fountain. The garden, which survived into the late 1960s, is now covered by part of the University complex.

Location

  1. "Huddersfield Town Council" in Huddersfield Daily Examiner (22/Aug/1891).
  2. "Town Council" in Huddersfield Daily Examiner (16/Jul/1914).