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Well as the work of the Improvement Commissioners had been carried out,
the work of the new Town Council was equally onerous. Those of us who
remember the town as it was in 1876 simply wonder at the immense changes
for the better which have had a graduated development under the administration
of the Council. Almost every improvement that building, engineering, or sanitary
science can suggest, has been utilised in the attempt to make our town worthy
of its people. One often wonders whether any other town, similarly engaged in
industrial pursuits, possesses such an array of suitable, eminently useful,
and in most cases, structurally beautiful buildings as those which are so
ornamental to ours.
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These, interspersed as they are with many good wide roadways,
and many small open spaces - Kay Gardens, Sparrow Park, and the Whitehead Tower
Gardens - and five beautiful Recreation Grounds, all bear tribute to the keen
activities of our City Fathers. Allied to their wide outlook, credit and thanks
must be given also to the donors of many acts of public generosity ; perhaps,
in the first case to the present Earl of Derby, and to his noble father, for
gifts of land and buildings ; to the late Henry Whitehead, Esq., of Elton ; and
also the family of the late Thomas Wrigley, Esq., for many handsome gifts and
bequests of very great intrinsic and artistic value.
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