Sefton Park is a public park in south Liverpool, England. The park is surrounded by a number of districts including Toxteth, Aigburth and Mossley Hill.
The park is 640 acres (2.6 km²) in area and has been designated a Grade II* Historic Park by English Heritage making it one of three such parks in the city, along with Princes Park and St James Cemetery.
Is it Merlin, or is it some other mystical creature, whose likeness arose silent and unannounced from the lone long-topped tree trunk in the heart of Sefton Park?
The park is 640 acres (2.6 km²) in area and has been designated a Grade II* Historic Park by English Heritage making it one of three such parks in the city, along with Princes Park and St James Cemetery.
Is it Merlin, or is it some other mystical creature, whose likeness arose silent and unannounced from the lone long-topped tree trunk in the heart of Sefton Park?
Her name is Hanna Jelinek and she had been commissioned to transform the stump of an old oak tree, she believed to be the oldest in the park. She had come from the Czech Republic, and was living in Livingstone Road with her children in order to carry out this commission.
Wooden head sculpture in Sefton park
Shaftesbury Memorial and Eros Fountain
This is Grade II listed and situated in the centre of the Park next to the cafe and former site of the aviary. The fountain, made from bronze and aluminium, was unveiled in 1932 and is a replica of a memorial to Lord Shaftesbury created by Sir Alfred Gilbert in London's Piccadilly Circus. It was restored in 2008 with a new aluminium Eros statue replacing the original which now resides in Liverpool's Conservation Centre.
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