Date: 08/07/2008
The Mayor of High Peak, Councillor Robin Baldry, has re-opened the Conservatory, at Pavilion Gardens, on Thursday, July 10, 2008, at 3.30pm.
Joining him and the Mayoress, Councillor Linda Baldry, were the Executive Councillors, Tony Kemp (Regeneration) and John Haken (Environment).
Also present at the re-opening were contract representatives:
The Pavilion Gardens grounds were tastefully and skilfully laid out in 1871, by Edward Milner, of Dulwich-Wood, Norwood, the landscape gardener and garden architect, who was employed in to lay out the Crystal Palace grounds, in south London.
The Buxton Pavilion and Gardens, which cost £12,000 to complete, were officially opened on September 30, 1871, by the Duke of Devonshire, Lord George Cavendish, MP, who gave the land for this.
Read the historic news report (external website**).
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