Dovecote Lane Recreation Park - Beeston, Nottinghamshire - Grand Opening on Waymarking.com

A plaque on the bandstand situated in Dovecote Lane Recreation Park, Beeston.
The site has an ornamental garden with seating together with the boroughs only bandstand. The area is used for community events throughout the year.

The plaque reads:

This Recreation Ground was opened on July 7TH 1908 By
The Right Hon. J.E. ELLIS. M.P.

Towards the cost of which
HENRY J PEARSON. ESQ.
contributed £1000.


"John Edward Ellis (1841 – 5 December 1910), was a British colliery owner and Liberal politician.

Ellis was returned to Parliament for the newly created constituency of Rushcliffe in the 1880 general election. In December 1905 he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for India in the Liberal administration of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, a post he held until 1907, and was sworn into the Privy Council in January 1906. A radical Liberal. Ellis was amongst those Liberals who supported Lloyd George's progressive "People's Budget" of 1909.

Ellis remained Member of Parliament for Rushcliffe until his death in December 1910, during the general election of that month. He married Maria Rowntree. Their twin daughters, Edith Ellis and Marian Cripps, Baroness Parmoor, were anti-war activists."

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Mr Henry Pearson, founder of the Beeston Factory Co. donated £1,000 (around £85,000 in todays money) for the Dovecote Lane Park. The bandstand is considered to be a rare example of wrought iron work in the locality

What was opened/inaugurated?: Dovecote Lane Recreation Park Who was that opened/inaugurated it?: The Right Hon. J.E. ELLIS. M.P. Date of the opening/inauguration?: July 7TH 1908 Website about the person: [Web Link] Website about the location: Not listed

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