Management Plan for Firth Park - MP4-Interreg

• Footpaths: there are two additional paths traversing the cricket ground; the ha-ha has
been developed into a walkway running parallel to and having connections from the
main path - this probably afforded good views to the west at this time; there is a
proposed connection in the south west corner of the park, anticipating the Cammell
Road entrance
• Bandstand: this feature sits in the southern open space, providing a focal point in this
area; its elevated position gives visual prominence and allows sound to carry across
full length of park
• Trams: by 1899 connecting as far as Bolsover Road and Page Hall Road (these were
electric trams – no horse drawn trams ever ran in north Sheffield because of the
gradient.)
• Housing development: there are now houses on the western side of Bellhouse Road;
there is housing on the north side of the proposed Firth Park Crescent; on the north
western side of Firth Park; along half of the northern side of Firth Park Avenue (with
consequent reduction in Brush House Wood) (these semi-detached middle-class
houses, brick with barge-boarded dormer windows, are typical of their time - on the
tram route and overlooking the Park: a definite selling-point for speculative builders);
and terraced houses south of the park along Vivian Road, Hamilton Road and Addison
Road.
• Character: there is a developing municipal quality with further housing development
within the area; there is improved access and new features in the Park including the
bandstand and the ‘viewing’ walkway on the old ha-ha; there is some loss of views with
building of Vivian Road housing; however, the Park retains much of the integrity of the
original character, but now ceases to relate to Page Hall.
Fig 10 Firth Park Lodge and old café Building
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