But, what if we told you the garden was the final resting place fordozens of famous people dating all the way back to the ...

The park on Merseyside, which opened in 1847, was part of a project to bring greenery to urban environments. Graham Arnold, chairman of the Friends of Birkenhead Park, said he hoped the accolade ...

Birkenhead Park, sometimes known as the People’s Garden, opened on 5 April 1847. Acknowledged as the world’s first publicly-funded park and designed by Joseph Paxton, it influenced other ...

Birkenhead Park is one of Merseyside’s most popular urban green spaces. A leading pioneer in parks across the world, the site opened on April 5 1847 and went on to inspire the iconic Central ...

Opened in 1864 to the designs of Edward Kemp, Superintendent of Birkenhead Park, Flaybrick ... MP who sat in the House of Commons between 1847 and 1868. He eventually was accepted as being ...