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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

Opened two days before Christmas in 1873, Leazes Park was the first purpose-built public park on Tyneside, created after nearly three thousand working men petitioned the council for open ground for the purpose of health and recreation. Laid out to the west of the city centre, it took sixteen years from petition to completion. Centred on an ornamental boating lake above the course of the Lort Burn, the Grade II-listed Victorian park was designed in the style of its era, with a bandstand added in...