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3 unusual facts about Avenham Park


Avenham Park

These include Preston's Mela, which celebrates the culture of the city's large Asian community and on Easter Monday children have traditionally rolled decorated eggs down its grassy slopes since Victorian times.

Bands and musicians such as Oasis, The Spice Girls, Natasha Bedingfield, Sushi and Mark Owen have also performed in Avenham Park in recent years.

East Lancashire Railway 1844–59

In the end the ELR won its bid, but had to landscape its embankment (which later became the dividing line between Avenham and Miller Parks), make an ornamental arch for carriages and pedestrians crossing under the railway, and build a footbridge on the river viaduct.



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