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have (li-eamed forty years ago of the priceless possession which his 

 modest " Gardens " would eventually become to the city. . . . We 

 remember say ing that the Gardens were the playground of Lancashire. 

 The description needs to be very largely expanded. A pleasure 

 resort which attracts, as Belle Vue does, thousands of visitors from 

 Edinburgh and Glasgow on the north, Yarmouth on the east, and 

 Gloucester, Cardiff, and Swansea on the south and west, has about 

 it something of a metropolitan air. Its votaries, indeed, are not 

 confined to the inhabitants of one hemisphere. We have heard 

 New Yorkers almost regretfully admit that the Empire City had 

 nothing so good to show in the way of a pleasure resort.' 



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