Talk:Heaton Park
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I have added some information on Heaton Hall and the design of the gardens as I think these are the most important features of the Park, however I found it a bit difficult to add these in to the existing format. I think the sections on "History" and "Heaton Hall" seem a little confused, but that may have come about because of people like me adding bits in. I think if they were merged together the article would read a lot better. This is generally a good article that has evolved somewhat over time and could now use some rearrangement. Could I suggest that the picture of the tram is moved to the "Tramway" section and a picture of the Hall is put in it's place? I hope to be able to supply a suitable picture in the near future. Also, I'm not sure that the bits about the hire of the park buildings belong in an encyclopaedia as they sound like an advertisement and the section on controversy is now out of date as the planning application was refused. I will have a go at rewriting the article myself, if no-one minds, as I want to add a lot more to it and can't see any way of fitting it into the present structure. I will endeavour to preserve the original text as much as possible Richerman 01:05, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Job Done
I have now completely restructured the article and expanded it. The photographs I've used aren't all of the best quality yet, but I will update them as I either get round the park and take some more, or digitally improve the existing ones and replace the files Richerman 11:57, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Doesn't seem particularly generous ...
The lead says that "The park was renovated as part of a millennium project using an £11 grant from the Lottery Heritage Fund", which is clearly not right. I had a quick look through the Lottery Fund's grants database, but I couldn't find the Heaton Park project to see what the correct figure was. --Malleus Fatuarum 20:58, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
- Ooops, sorry, that's what happens when you don't cite your sources, and I didn't get it quite right anyway, it came from this page but it actually says it was jointly funded by the Heritage lottery fund and Manchester Council. I'll try researching a bit more on the subject. Richerman 21:08, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I've sorted that out now with references but it seems the HLF only contributed £7m of the total spent Richerman 22:37, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Race course
A sign on the Old Town Hall Colonnade says that "This south western part of the park was the site of a race course from 1827 to 1939. A painting in the hall illustrates one of the more lively race meetings". I'm not too sure how best to cite this information, hence why I'm adding it here rather than on the article page. Mike Peel (talk) 20:19, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
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- There I quite a few bits of information I put in that was taken from the signs but I've not given them references. My only excuse is that I did it when I was a newbie on Wikipedia. Perhaps a note that says something like "taken from an information sign in the park" would the the right way to do it? Richerman (talk) 22:50, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
