I am writing a piece for the Burngreave Messenger about the upcoming Centenary of Abbeyfield becoming a public park - it was officially opened on July 15th 1909 - and am very interested in any stories people have of the park and how it's changed over the years. We have quite a bit of information about the last thirty years or so, but it is very sparse from before then.

If anyone has any contributions they'd like to make, and don't object to them being in print then, I'd love to hear them. Also any old photo's of the park would be great.

I have most of the relevant informatn about the Corporation purchasing the park in the first place, and any info recieved will find it's way on here and onto sheffieldhistory.co.uk after it's been in the Messenger.

cheers

Im surprised Its still there thought it had gone years ago

It's still there and is still lovely. They took the boating lake out years ago, but the rest of it is in pretty good nick!

Used to play in Abbeyfield park as a kid didn’t know it had boating lake, can remember playing on the draught board next to the park keeper’s office at the side of the Bowling Green. Was the park give to the city by the Pass Family?