--- title: "Birkenhead Park Y6" url: "https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2023-03-30-15-34-05-birkenhead-park-y6" school: "Brookside Primary School" --- # Birkenhead Park Y6 ![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/images/blog/IMG_20230330_134822.jpg) 30 March 2023 [Mr Whitcombe](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/author/DavidWhitcombe) [Year 6](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/category/year-6) As part of our ‘Design and Technology’ unit (Making Playgrounds) and in the interest of ‘Cultural Capital’ – Year 6 visited the historic ‘Birkenhead Park’. A Brief History of Birkenhead Park **1847** ![Print representing a crowd from the Victorian period in front of the Grand Entrance](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/images/blog/c83374586cdd6b0102eabf410e3d4732.png) On Easter Monday, Birkenhead Park was officially opened by Lord Morpeth and thousands of people attended the ceremony. On the same day, the new Birkenhead docks were also inaugurated. **1850** ![Frederick Law Olmsted reading a paper](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/images/blog/9d0ebee49b9b4876dba27c9046d9bf34.jpg) Frederick Law Olmsted, an agricultural engineer and landscape architect from America – visited the park and was impressed by its democratic ideals. He coined the term ‘the People’s Garden’ and would eventually go on to design Central Park in New York, based on the social and economic models of Birkenhead Park. **1858 - 1859** ![Plans of Central Park New York from 1860](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/images/blog/4367f3357cbaa7e0db74158795de6cce.png) Work began on Central Park in New York in 1858. In the following year, at the height of the Central Park project, the commissioners voted to send Olmsted off to England, where he visited Birkenhead Park for the second time. ### Y6 Birkenhead Park [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_101120.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/images/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_101120.jpg) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_101628.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/images/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_101628.jpg) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/720x720s/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_102329.jpg)](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/images/gallery/y6-birkenhead-park/IMG_20230330_102329.jpg) 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