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Letter: When a park is not a park...
I NOTICED with concern in your recent papers that you have referred to Woodhouse Moor as Hyde Park on several occasions.
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Now I know that the local councillors are also at fault, stating the name of the Moor as Woodhouse Moor Park on their sign boards. It is not, and never has been, in my lifetime – and I have lived here for over 60 years, called a park, even though it is one thanks to the Victorian benefactors who bought it and drained the marshy areas to create what we have today.
The area called Hyde Park is the area round the traffic lights and the Hyde Park pub, and that is all.
My mother used to take me for a walk or to play on the swings (then in the area where the cherry trees are, next to the tennis courts) on the Moor, she used to take me to Hyde Park to go shopping. You couldn’t swing in Hyde Park, and you couldn’t buy butter or sugar on the Moor.
If people with influence over what other people read and believe get it wrong then the name of the Moor will be lost very quickly.
Already the majority of university people seem to call it Hyde Park, and the council have added ‘park’ on the end of the name.
Please will everyone start to name it properly!
People don’t call Holbeck Moor Holbeck Moor Park, and the Hollies does not have ‘park’ added to its name in its sign posts, so why does Woodhouse Moor?
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JasonL
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 07:39 PMAgreed. No-one cares. If it becomes known as Hyde Park, so be it. The name of a public placearea is dictated by the people, not by authority, so if more people consider it Hyde Park, then it's Hyde Park. To add another spanner in your works, most of Hyde Park used to be known as Wrangthorn before it became known as Hyde Park. By your theory, why don't we all start calling Leeds Leodis again?
leedsmodus
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 05:43 PMWhom cares? Apart from yourself? You really need to get out a little more often
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