- First opened in 1888
- Was gifted to the town by London and North Western Railway
- It is a grade 2 listed park containing graded the clock tower and 2 partly wooden houses which are additionally listed
Queens Park, Crewe has been altered very little since the 1880’s, it for this reason and others that it is a grade 2* listed park.
The park was designed by the chief medical engineer of London and North Western Railway, F.W Webb and Edward Kemp; one of the era’s leading landscape designers, works include Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, Birkenhead and Grosvenor Park, Chester.
In July, 1887 Queens Park was dedicated to mark the joint occasion of the of the Queens jubilee and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway. The park was gifted to the people of Crewe by London and North Western Railway and was officially opened in June 1888.
The park cost £10,000 to buy the land and build the park, this would represent £1.2 million in today’s prices. Before the park was build the land was primarily fields and once contained sewage works.
The park has had 3 prominant park keepers since 1888, the first keeper, George Latimer who managed the park for a total of 18 years. Secondly, there was Mr Morgan, who had a vast knowledge of plants and trees and was and still is responsible for much of the shrubbery and trees that were planted in the park. Finally the was H.W Probert who as an act to commemorate the coronation in 1937 laid the foundations for Coronation Walk.
In his later years F.W Webb became the twice mayor of Crewe and was a major benefactor who the Webb Orphanage which was named in his honor.
All the men mentioned in this article have all got streets named after them, as a in memoriam for the park and the work the did for the Crewe area.
The Crewe Citizen 