QUEENS Park recently featured in these pages after a plaque commemorating its 150th anniversary was created with an apostrophe.

This fuelled debate as to whether the name of the popular greenspace should or should not include the apostrophe mark.

While that argument rages on, we decided to take a look through our files for some seldom-seen images of the park over the years.

These pictures should bring back memories for our readers. Many of them show long lost parts of the park, including the popular Butterfly World, which later moved to Moss Bank Park.

In others we see the remains of the old bandstand, which had been relocated many years before due to spectators being bitten by midges from a nearby brook in the River Croal.

Elsewhere, it may surprise some to learn that the floral coat of arms display in the park used to bear the name of whoever was current mayor of the Bolton – which may or may not have been the reason for some repeated acts of vandalism to the flower bed.

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