Here’s a selection of pictures from our archives showing the park and events from its early days during the Victorian period and much more recently in the 1990s and early noughties.
13. The gardens of Mesnes Park in 1939
. Photo: Send in
14. Malcolm Russell, parks and countryside manager, inspects damage to Mesnes Park bowling pavilion, following a fire in 1998
. Photo: NICK FAIRHURST
15. The Smokey City Jazz Band in action at Mesnes Park bandstand in 2001
. Photo: GARY KELMAN