This beautiful park is an oasis in the middle of Brierley Hill.
The local council tried to purchase the land way back in 1905, and an offer to support the purchase was made by locally born Salt King John Corbett. The deal fell through and subsequently Marsh & Baxter purchased the land.
At the end of the Great War the town set three objectives for war memorials: the monument which now stands on Church Hill; a club for ex-service men, which was eventually established in Albion Street; and a park for the town.
A. Ernest Marsh, Chairman of Marsh & Baxter and also the council announced in 1919 that the company were willing to donate the land to the local authority. Corbett’s offer of funding was taken up and work was carried out by ex-service men to create the park. It was officially opened by Mrs Marsh in September 1921.
The park is well worth a walk around. It has avenues of trees which were planted in memory of those who lost their lives in the Great War.
