SORRY, but the note in the paper on Tuesday, July 22, about the Rowntree Park birthday party is not quite right.
The note beneath the picture on page 11 says there has been a party in the park every year since it was given to the city 93 years ago, to commemorate the gift. But Sunday was not the 93rd party: it was the 93rd birthday of the park.
The edition of the Yorkshire Evening Press of July 16, 1921, contained an account of the opening of the park when Joseph Rowntree handed over to the then Lord Mayor the Deeds of the Park “as a tribute to the memory of those members of the company’s staff who … served their country in her hour of need”.
Admittedly publicity about the birthday party was ambiguous but we organised the first birthday party in 1995, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
This year’s party was perhaps more significant, as the note in Tuesday’s paper points out, since it did commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the one for which the park as a memorial was created.
Alison Sinclair,
Norfolk Street,
York.
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