A cafe in Strathmore uses pages from old Gregory's street directories to house its menus; by chance I noted this internal reserve in my menu earlier in the week. This one isn't easily dated, of course, but I looked at my 1979 Gregory's and I find that the reserve is there, in the same form, labelled not 'park' but rather 'D. R. Atkinson Res.' This space had always passed me by as an internal reserve because of the form it now takes; the west side is open to the road. This might mean council (City of Preston) bought up and demolished houses on the west side - more likely, it bought up vacant land before demolitions became 'necessary'. I believe this area, designated Keon Park, was part of an early 1920s Saxil Tuxen estate plan.
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