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Quuens Park Main Gates

Queens Park Main Gates

An impressive ornamental iron gateway stands at the entrance, where the lodges are located. The side gates contain the date of the park's dedication 1887 and the main gates have a royal crown in their design. Four red stone gateposts support these. Uniquely, all the cast iron railings around the park including the main gate were all made in the Railway Company in the Works.

Queens Park Clock Tower

Just past the lodges on the main drive, stands the prominent Clock Tower - 1888 which was donated by employees of the Railway company. The tower  is topped by an elaborate

support to a weather vane. At the base of the tower, on either side, there were originally two drinking fountains with brass cups on chains. Facing the
 
main driveway at the foot of the clock tower a plaque can be seen for the towers' donation in 1887. This was unveiled by James Middleton who had driven the first train into Crewe on 4th July 1837.The clock tower is a grade II listed building of special historic interest.

Queens Park Clock Tower
Queens Park West Lodge

Queens Park West Lodge

Adjacent to the Clock Tower are two stone and timber lodges, built between 1887 - 1888 by John Brooke; not quite a pair, as the design of the West Lodge incorporates a Bell Tower. An inscribed bressummer at the first floor level of the West Lodge commemorates the opening of Victoria Avenue by the Commander-in-Chief H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge.

Look on the lodge for the spider, its web and a tree and a spider, design puns on Francis William Webb. The inscription at first floor level of the East Lodge commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Grand Railway Junction. You will notice a painting of a bat, moon and tree, in yellow and green - another pun, this time on Sir Richard Moon, Bart., Chairman of the LNWR Company. The red sandstone used for both lodges came from the railway cuttings that take the line to Lime Street Station, Liverpool. Both lodges are Grade II listed buildings of special architectural and historic interest.

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