This view of the Valley Gardens shows clearly the Halfpenny Bridge in the background, but of more interest is the flower bed in the foreground which is where I believe there used to be a bandstand, although I can remember a fishpond and fountain. Callum Duff tells us: ”Saltburns bandstand was demolished by a bomb in 1940 and I was led to believe that the crater left by the explosion was made into a pond. I have film of this location from 1963 and there is fountain and fishpond on the site. This fountain used to be located below the Italian Gardens, next to the Chalybeate Spring and can be seen in many early photographs. The base of the fountain still remains and the outline of the later pond, now filled in. The fountain & pond were restored in the 1990′s but quickly succumbed to vandalism mainly due to the loss of the resident gardener, some years before. This image was presumably taken between 1945 and 1962?”
Image courtesy of Maurice Grayson and thanks to Callum Duff for the update.
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