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Alexandra Park (other)
Alexandra Park may refer to: Places England * Alexandra Park, Hastings * Alexandra Park, Ipswich * Alexandra Park, London * Alexandra Park, Manchester * Alexandra Park, Oldham * Alexandra Park, Portsmouth * Alexandra Park, Poole * Alexandra Park Racecourse, London Other places * Alexandra Park, Toronto, Canada * Alexandra Park, in the West End, Vancouver, West End of Vancouver, Canada * Alexandra Park, Auckland, New Zealand * Alexandra Park, Wellington, next to Government House, Wellington, Government House, New Zealand * Alexandra Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland * Alexandra Park, Glasgow, Scotland * Alexandra Park cricket ground, Pietermaritzburg, also known as the City Oval, South Africa * Alexandra Park, Harare, Zimbabwe People * Alexandra Park (actress) (born 1989), Australian actress * Alexandra Parks (born 1984), English singer-songwriter See also * * Alexander Park (other) * Alexandra Gardens (other) * Alexandra Stadium, home ground of Crewe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Hastings
Alexandra Park is a public park located in Hastings, East Sussex in England. Originally named St Andrews Gardens at its opening in 1864, it was then redesigned by Robert Marnock during 1877. The park grew in a series of increments and now occupies approximately of the town. Its linear area stretches from the town centre out to residential areas. It was formally opened by the Prince and Princess of Wales on 26 June 1882, and named after the latter. During 1998, much of the lower portion of the park was closed and given to an ambitious storm drain project by Southern Water, which also involved tunnelling in several other areas throughout the town. At the close of the project, the park's lawns and entrances were returned to their original state as designed by Marnock. In April 2004, the park was officially reopened by Charlie Dimmock and the Mayor of Hastings after a large regeneration scheme costing £3.46m. Initial surveys suggest that park visitor numbers have dramatically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Auckland
Alexandra Park is a racecourse in the suburb of Epsom in Auckland, New Zealand. It is the home of the Auckland Trotting Club . The park consists of the Alexandra Park Raceway trotting track, conference centre and a high-end urban village currently under construction. Alexandra Park hosts many feature harness races throughout the year, including the Auckland Trotting Cup and the Rowe Cup, and is the home of the New Zealand Trotting Hall of Fame and museum. History Named after Queen Alexandra this is believed to be the site of Auckland's first organised racing in 1842. Part of William Potter's large farm it was known as Potter's Paddock. Bought for their draught horses by the tramways company in 1887 it was, by agreement, still used for football, Rugby and cricket matches. Regular Auckland Trotting Club meetings began in 1890. Ten years later on the visit of her eldest son, the duke of Cornwall, it received the name Alexandra Park and the parkland around it was named Cornwall P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Park (other)
Alexander Park may refer to: * Alexander Park (Saint Petersburg), a park in Saint Petersburg, Russia * Alexander Park (Tsarskoye Selo), a park in Tsarskoye Selo, Russia * Alexander Park (Columbus, Ohio), United States * Alexander Park (politician) (1808–1873),Australian politician See also * Viscount Alexander Park, a neighbourhood in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Alexander Parker (other) * Alexander Parkes (1813–1890), English metallurgist * Alexandra Park (other) * Alex Parks (born 1984), English singer-songwriter * Alexander Garden {{disambiguation, geo, hn=Park, Alexander ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Parks
Alexandra Rebecca Parks (born 26 July 1984) is an English singer-songwriter. Parks was entered into the BBC Television programme, ''Fame Academy (series 2), Fame Academy'' by her father. It was a show that she went on to win. Soon after winning ''Fame Academy'', she released her first album entitled ''Introduction (Alex Parks album), Introduction'', which went double platinum in the United Kingdom and gold in several other European countries. In 2005 she released her second album, ''Honesty (Alex Parks album), Honesty''. Parks was dropped by her label, Polydor Records, Polydor, on 8 February 2006. Parks stated that the move was a mutual decision and that things had not worked out. Biography Alex Parks was born in July 1984 and was raised in the village of Mount Hawke, Cornwall. She is the youngest of four siblings. Parks attended college at The Hub in St Austell. Parks began fronting a local band, ''One Trick Pony'', which performed mostly cover songs by artists such as Joni M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park (actress)
Alexandra Park is an Australian actress. She is known for her role as Claudia Hammond in the Australian soap opera '' Home and Away'' in 2009. She also starred in the E! drama series '' The Royals'' as Princess Eleanor from 2015 to 2018. Career Park made her acting debut in the Australian television series ''The Elephant Princess'' in 2011, playing Veronica. In 2009, she played Claudia Hammond in the soap opera '' Home and Away''. During that time, she appeared in an episode of ''Packed to the Rafters'' in 2011. She appeared as Sienna in the 2012 short film ''Arc''. She also appeared in a 2013 episode of the television series '' Wonderland'' as Jodie. From 2015 to 2018, she portrayed Princess Eleanor in the E! original series '' The Royals''. Park played a filmmaker in the horror thriller film '' Carnifex'', which screened at the Adelaide Film Festival in October 2022. It was South Australian film editor Sean Lahiff's directing debut. In the film, Park's character and two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Harare
Alexandra Park is an affluent, leafy residential suburb in the north of Harare, Zimbabwe. The area was developed for serviceman and their families in the post-war years following World War II. Notable institutions located in Alexandra Park are: The National Botanic Garden (Zimbabwe) and National Herbarium; the National Parks and Wildlife services of Zimbabwe; the Zimbabwe Rugby Union; St George's College, Harare, St George's College (private secondary boys school); Alexandra Park Primary School; Hartmann House (private boys primary school); and the Embassy of Bulgaria. History The suburb of Alex Park was originally set-up to address housing shortages after World War II; the government of the time promised servicemen plots of half acre land once the war was over and Alexandra Park was one of the suburbs in which this land was allocated. Many of the street names reflect significant places or people involved in World War II such as Winston Churchill, Churchill Avenue, Dunkirk#Dun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Oval
City Oval (formerly Alexandra Park and sometimes called the Pietermaritzburg Oval), is a multi-purpose stadium in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The 12,000 capacity stadium is currently used predominantly for cricket matches, with the ground being used by KwaZulu-Natal Inland men's and women's teams, KwaZulu-Natal and Dolphins (who also play at Kingsmead, Durban), and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. It is one of only three first-class cricket grounds in the world to have a tree within the boundary ropes (the others being St Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, United Kingdom and VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen, Netherlands), and any cricketer that scores a century or takes a five-wicket haul in a match at the City Oval gets to plant a tree at the ground. The City Oval Pavilion is based on the design of Queen's Park cricket ground in Chesterfield, United Kingdom. History The City Oval, then known as Alexandra Park, hosted its first first-class cricket match in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Glasgow
Alexandra Park is a public park in the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. It is located in Dennistoun, east of the city centre. Named after Princess Alexandra of Denmark, it opened in 1870. The highest point of the park gives views north to Ben Lomond and south to the Tinto Hills. The park is generally open from dawn to dusk daily, but the facilities inside the park have separate opening and closing times accordingly. History * 1866: The City Improvement Trustees of Glasgow purchased the land of Alexandra Park from Mr Walter Stewart with the intention of giving the people of the north-east of Glasgow a place of leisure and recreation. When the land was purchased it was bare and barren with hardly any trees. Ordnance Survey maps of this time show the land named as Tollcross Park. * 1867–1868: Hundreds of unemployed artisans and labourers were employed to begin the renovation of the park to give them something to do during the great trade depression. * 1870: The park is officiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Belfast
Alexandra Park is a Victorian park situated in north Belfast. It is named after Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was opened in 1888. As is typical for parks of the period, it has a formal layout that includes tree lined avenues. It also contains play areas for children. Alexandra Park is believed to be the only park in western Europe to be divided by a three-metre (10') wall. The barrier was erected in 1994 and is one of a number of "peace walls" built across the city in attempt to prevent violence between Irish nationalism, Nationalist/Irish republicanism, Republican and Unionism in Ireland, Unionist/Ulster loyalism, Loyalist communities. The wall's foundations were laid on 1 September 1994, the day of the Northern Ireland peace process#Towards negotiations, first IRA ceasefire. The northern part of the park was accessible only from the Antrim Road whilst the southern part could only be reached from the Shore Road, Belfast, Shore Road. In September 2011 a gate linkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government House, Wellington
Government House, Wellington, is the principal residence of the governor-general of New Zealand, the representative of the New Zealand head of state, King Charles III. Dame Cindy Kiro, who has been Governor-General since October 2021, currently resides there with her spouse, Richard Davies. The present building, the third Government House in Wellington, was completed in 1910. It is located in the Newtown suburb of the city. As well as being an official residence and workplace, Government House is also the main venue where the governor-general entertains members of the public, and receives visiting heads of state and other dignitaries and the credentials of ambassadors to New Zealand. Government House is likewise the location of many award presentations and investitures, and where prime ministers and other ministers of the Crown are sworn in, among other ceremonial and constitutional functions. History First Government Houses When Auckland was the capital of New Zealand from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West End, Vancouver
The West End is a neighbourhood in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, located between the Coal Harbour neighbourhood and the financial and central business districts of Downtown Vancouver to the east, Stanley Park to the northwest, the English Bay to the west, and Kitsilano to the southwest across the False Creek opening. The West End is not to be confused with the West Side (which denotes the western half of the non-downtown part of Vancouver city to the south) or West Vancouver ("West Van"), a separate municipality. (Conversely, and to the confusion of some, "East Van," "the East End," and "the East Side" all denote East Vancouver.) The definition of the "official neighbourhood" of the West End, according to the city, is the area west of Burrard Street, east of Lost Lagoon, and south of West Georgia Street. Historically the term originated and remains used by Vancouverites to refer to everything from Burrard Street to Stanley Park, including the Stanley Park Neighbourhood we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Park, Ipswich
Alexandra Park is situated between Grove Lane, Kings Avenue and Back Hamlet, Ipswich. History In 1903, the Ipswich Corporation purchased one of six packages of land which was formerly part of the Hill House Estate and home of the Byles family. The land became parkland and was named ''Alexandra Park'' after the wife of Edward VII. In June 1904, the park was officially opened to the public. Features The park is mainly gently sloped grass area. It includes a children's play area and public toilets. It also is host to the May Day Festival in Ipswich, held usually on the closest Sunday to May 1. The park has a natural slope from Grove Lane down to Kings Avenue. This permits views of the surrounding areas, including the Orwell Bridge, the docks area and many of the town's ancient churches such as St Mary le Tower and its prominent spire. Memorial Fountain The fountain was presented to the town by Alderman Charles Henry Cowell as a memorial to his mother, Marianne Byles Cowell. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
