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The Avenue at Nork Park
The picture of the "avenue" was taken, I am pretty sure, in 1897, and I assume it was a souvenir that Constance brought back from her time there. I believe it was brought to the USA as a souvenir by Constance Dalziel when she and her father, Murray Dalziel, returned home after visiting in 1907. I believe the notation, "Avenue at Nork Park," is in Constance's handwriting. This picture was in Murray Dalziel's scrapbook when he died in 1942 in Jackson Michigan, USA.
I am somewhat puzzled about exactly where this picture was taken. I have only been to Nork Park once. This avenue leads up to the right front (facing the house).
UPDATE 16 AUG 2014 For an up to date photo of this view taken 117 years later please see picture #391
Picture added on 31 July 2014 at 00:42
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The gate pillars at the end of The Drive are too close together to be the ones in the picture.And also they are in the wrong orientation in relation to where Nork House was. So i can't quite work out why they are there.
Note from LNW: Have you looked at picture #391 which may be part of the answer. See also picture #573 which expands on the entrance to the Drive from Nork Park Hill and has more information about the various pillars.
Note from LNW: Have you looked at picture #391 which may be part of the answer. See also picture #573 which expands on the entrance to the Drive from Nork Park Hill and has more information about the various pillars.
Added by Colin Church on 01 July 2018
The avenue was a pathway used for horses at the time and the gate post are submerged by over grown shrub
Added by Aaron Richard Anthony Lea on 22 April 2020
I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that these posts were moved to their current position, just as a kind of memorial to the mansion that was once here. I believe they were originally at the very end of The Drive - the road that goes out onto the A217. The Drive is named as such because it used to lead to the house, and the trees planted on either side of the straight road follow the original one
Added by Blythe on 28 April 2020
Nork
I can't believe they've been moved so must be in their original position?