{"id":588,"date":"2014-10-16T16:52:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/wordpress_media\/?page_id=588"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:15:51","slug":"last-whistle-at-wolverton-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/olioweb.me.uk\/oliomedia\/?page_id=588","title":{"rendered":"Last Whistle at Wolverton Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"10_pvdh\"<\/a>A photographic study by Jeremy Cooper and the late Paul Van den Hende<\/h3>\n

OPEN THE GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n

Introduction by Jeremy Cooper<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m ashamed to admit that although I’ve lived in Wolverton since the early-90s, I visited Wolverton Park for the first time in 2005, mainly to see the famous grandstand which was then the subject of much controversy.<\/p>\n

The grandstand and the Park struck me as an excellent subject for a photographic study, and I recruited Paul Van den Hende to collaborate on the project. When we got round to doing anything about it we found we were only just in time! I arrived for my photographic visit (it was the sunny morning I had been waiting for) just as the developers were blocking off the entrance to the Park alongside the old bowling green.<\/p>\n

Paul had made several visits a week or so before me, and caught his wide shots of the Park and the Royal Train Shed only just before redevelopment began in earnest and the Park became a building site.<\/p>\n

So our photos are certainly among the last – if not the last – to be taken of the Park, and in particular the grandstand, before they changed for ever.<\/p>\n

We have given print-size files of the photos and a PowerPoint display of them to The Living Archive<\/a> to use as they see fit.<\/p>\n

OPEN THE GALLERY<\/a><\/p>\n