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'Welcome to the Friends of
Lister Park (FLiP) website. We are a community organization
set up to represent the views of people who use Lister Park
( also Known as Manningham Park) in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
FLiP aims to promote the park as a facility that is safe and
feely accessible to all groups of people in the local area and
beyond.'
This
website has been developed by FLiP
volunteers with funding from the QED Community LIFE Fund.
FLiP
would like to acknowledge that text has been taken from a variety
of sources including:-
Bradford Council, ‘Application to the Heritage Lottery Fund’,
Geological Society website, Heaton & District Local History
Group ‘Memories of Lister Park’, Bradford Historical & Antiquarian
Society, Telegraph & Argus website. |
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One Mile from City Centre, on the A650 Keighley Rd,
is Bradford’s Awarded winning- Lister Park,
home of F Li P- (Friends of Lister Park).
Bradford Council purchased Lister Park from Samuel Cunliffe
Lister on
28th October 1870 for the sum of £40,000, a figure £20,000 below
its valuation, on condition that it was used as a public park.
The park, formerly the site of Manningham Hall, home of the
Lister family, now contains Cartwright Hall, the city’s premier
Art Gallery and Museum, built between 1900 and 1904.
In May 1997, the Council was awarded a grant of £3.2 million
from the Heritage and Lottery Fund to restore, protect and enhance
the Park’s heritage value. The restoration work is now complete,
and new facilities include the restored botanical gardens and
Victorian lake, a new boating pavilion and café, statues, bandstand,
a children’s adventure playground and the new Mughal Gardens.
Boat hire is available between April and October.
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TIMES |
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Months :
Lister Park is open daily
Boating Pavilion & Coffee Shop
April–September 12.00–19.00
Boating Lake
April–October 12.00 – Dusk |
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| ADMISSION
CHARGE |
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Charges for boating |
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| PARKING |
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Parking in the park |
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DISABLED
FACILITIES
All areas of Lister Park are disabled accessible. There are disabled accessible toilets available in the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery that is located within the Park. Access to all areas of the Gallery is by lift. Please ring the red bell at the rear of the building and an attendant will assist. Opening time for Cartwright Hall are: Tuesday to Saturday 10am~5pm, Sunday 1pm~5pm.
Disabled accessible toilets are also provided at the Lister Park coffee shop & Boating pavilion, which is open in the summer months- phone 01274 437673 for details. |
