Many families came with lots of children. Weekends and Bank Holidays were busy, with particularly large crowds at Easter.
Activities to do on and around the lake included rowing, motorboats, swing boats, swimming (complete with eels), diving, Shetland pony rides, a padding pool, a tea garden and café, a monkey and a Mynah bird.
The pleasure grounds tell a story of being present: the quality of the experience of simply having fun and spending time together with family and friends.
Perhaps it could be considered a return to a form of timelessness, where the present – who they were with there and then, and what they were doing – was all that mattered.
