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Stanley Park (other)
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Stanley Park is a public park in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Stanley Park may also refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Stanley Park'' (novel), by Timothy Taylor, 2001 * ''Stanley Park'' (TV series), a 2010 drama pilot episode for BBC Three Places Canada * Stanley Park (neighbourhood), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * Parkhill/Stanley Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada United Kingdom *Stanley Park, Blackpool, England *Stanley Park, Liverpool, England **Stanley Park Stadium (proposed) ** Stanley Park railway station (proposed) *Stanley Park, in Selsley, Gloucestershire, England United States *Stanley Park (Westfield, Massachusetts) Stanley Park is a non-profit privately owned park including an arboretum and botanical garden, located in Westfield, Massachusetts. It is open to the public daily without charge from May to November. Although the park is closed during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a public park in British Columbia, Canada that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay. The park borders the neighbourhoods of West End and Coal Harbour to its southeast, and is connected to the North Shore via the Lions Gate Bridge. The historic lighthouse on Brockton Point marks the park's easternmost point. While it is not the largest of its kind, Stanley Park is about one-fifth larger than New York City's Central Park and almost half the size of London's Richmond Park. Stanley Park has a long history. The land was originally used by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years before British Columbia was colonized by the British during the 1858 Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and was one of the first areas to be explored in the city. For many years after colonization, the future park with its abundant resources would also be home to non-Indigenous settlers. The land was later turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park (novel)
''Stanley Park'' is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Taylor, published in 2001. Overview Jeremy Papier is a Vancouver chef and restaurateur who owns a bistro called The Monkey's Paw. The novel uses a "Bloods vs. Crips" metaphor for the philosophical conflict between chefs such as Papier, who favour local ingredients and menus, and those such as his nemesis Dante Beale, who favour a hip, globalized, "post-national" fusion cuisine. Papier also endures conflict with his father, an anthropologist studying homelessness in Vancouver's Stanley Park, who draws him into investigating the death of two children in the park. Awards and nominations Taylor's debut novel, the book was nominated for the Giller Prize in 2001, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2002. It was subsequently chosen as the 2003 winner of One Book, One Vancouver. In 2007, the novel was chosen for competition in ''Canada Reads'', where it was championed by musician Jim Cuddy."CBC Radio launches annual C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park (TV Series)
''Stanley Park'' is one of a collection of drama pilot episodes produced for BBC Three and was broadcast on 10 June 2010. The story focuses on a group of young friends going through a life-changing period of their lives. The episode was produced by 6 Degree Media and was written by Leo Richardson and inspired by his stage play. Characters Production ''Stanley Park'' is the second of a series of three pilot episodes that were broadcast on BBC Three, the others being ''Pulse'' and ''Dappers''. Filming locations The show is filmed in Cardiff, but set in Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Croydon, a local government district of Greater London. It is one of the largest commercial districts in Greater London, with an extensi .... External links Official Website* * Stanley park writer introduces the Carrie Bradshaw of Croydon {{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley Park (Tv Series) 2010 British television series d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park (neighbourhood)
Stanley Park is a neighbourhood of the West End in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is designated as the area lying between Denman Street and the boundary of Stanley Park Stanley Park is a public park in British Columbia, Canada that makes up the northwestern half of Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula, surrounded by waters of Burrard Inlet and English Bay. The park borders the neighbourhoods of West End and Coal ... proper. It is high density, like most of the West End, and is known for being a more affluent area of the West End and, once away from Denman Street, also one of the quietest on the downtown peninsula. Condominium properties facing the park are some of the most expensive in the city. The extreme southwest of the area overlaps with the English Bay neighbourhood. {{coord, 49.2914, N, 123.1400, W, display=title Neighbourhoods in Vancouver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkhill/Stanley Park, Calgary
Parkhill/Stanley Park is a residential neighbourhood in the southwest quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is bounded by Mission Road to the north, Macleod Trail to the east, Crescent Boulevard to the south and the Elbow River to the west. The ''Roxboro Park'' borders the community to the north and ''Stanley Park'' is established in the Elbow River valley. This is one of Calgary's oldest neighbourhoods, being established in 1910. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 9 councillor. The community has an area redevelopment plan in place. Demographics In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Parkhill had a population of living in dwellings, a -1.9% increase from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2012. Residents in this community had a median household income of $60,937 in 2000, and there were 13.6% low income residents living in the neighbourhood. As of 2000, 14.7% of the residents were immigrants. A proport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park, Blackpool
Stanley Park is a public park in the town of Blackpool on the Fylde coast in Lancashire, England. It is the town's primary park and covers an area of approximately . The park was designed to include significant sporting provisions, along with formal gardens, a boating lake and woodland area. It was designed and built in the 1920s, under the eye of Thomas Mawson. It is located in the Great Marton and Layton areas of the town. It is Grade II* listed and is on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. The park's largest gardens feature a fountain built with Italian marble and a number of statues including a pair of Medici Lions. The Italian gardens are overlooked by a cafe, designed by Mawson and built in a traditional Art Deco style, and include steps down to the boating lake. Surrounding the boating lake is a woodland area, including a protected area for wildlife. On one side of the lake is an amphitheatre surrounding a bandstand, also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park, Liverpool
Stanley Park is a park in Liverpool, England, designed by Edward Kemp (landscape architect), Edward Kemp, which was opened on 14 May 1870 by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joseph Hubback. It is significant among Liverpool's parks on account of its layout and architecture. It has a grand terrace with expansive bedding schemes that were once highlighted by fountains. It includes the 1899 Gladstone Conservatory (recently restored and renamed the Isla Gladstone Conservatory), a Grade II listed building built by Mackenzie & Moncur of Edinburgh. 50–60% of the land consisted of open turfed areas, suitable for sport, with most of the rest being laid out as formal gardens and lakes. Kemp designed a horse-riding track ('Rotten Row'), though it did not catch on and was restyled as a cycle track around 1907. Stanley Park is known for dividing the home grounds of Merseyside derby, rival Merseyside football clubs Everton F.C., Everton and Liverpool F.C., Liverpool. However it was also the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park Stadium
Stanley Park was a proposed Association football, football stadium in Stanley Park, Liverpool, Stanley Park, Liverpool that if built, would have become home to Liverpool F.C., Liverpool Football Club, replacing their current stadium Anfield. The stadium had a planned capacity of 60,000 (potentially expandable to 73,000) all-seater stadium, all-seated. There were two designs that were given planning permission. One was designed by architects AFL with a capacity of 60,000, the second was a more expensive futuristic design by Dallas-based architects HKS, which would originally seat 60,000 with capacity for further expansion to 73,000. As of January 2012 only small site preparation work had been completed. A change in owners resulted in the plans for Stanley Park Stadium being reexamined. In October 2012 new owners Fenway Sports Group announced their decision to redevelop and expand the current club stadium Anfield (in a similar way that they redeveloped Fenway Park for the Boston Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Park Railway Station
Stanley Park is a proposed new railway station in Anfield, Liverpool, England. The proposed station would coincide with the expansion of nearby Anfield stadium due to the increase in capacity of the stadium to 60,000. It would be on the former Canada Dock Branch that closed to passengers in 1948 close to the site of the former Anfield Station This was again mentioned in Merseytravel Merseytravel is the passenger transport executive, responsible for the coordination of public transport in the Liverpool City Region in North West England. Merseytravel was established on 1 December 1969 as the Merseyside Passenger Transpor ...'s 30-year plan of 2014. References Proposed railway stations in Merseyside {{Merseyside-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selsley
Selsley is a village within the civil parish of King's Stanley and district of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, England. It is composed of around 175 houses, scattered around the western and eastern edge of a Cotswold spur, located approximately south of Stroud. History and notable events Selsley Common is an ancient place, but the name Selsley was only used for the settlement after the parish was created in 1863, with the village divided into Selsley West and Selsley. Previously Selsley West was a series of hamlets known as Stanley End, Picked (or Peaked) Elm and The Knapp, with The Knapp east of present day Middleyard, Stanley End closer to the modern Selsley village, and Picked Elm the houses near Peaked Elm Farm. Stanley Park in Selsley was the destination of pioneering Oxford balloonist, James Sadler, on the first ever flight from Stroud on 19 October 1785. It was estimated that the flight was watched by forty thousand people. Selsley made the news again when the Common wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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