Published by Whitby Literary & Philosophical Society ISBN 978-0-902074-19-4 Price : £4.95 (plus £1.50 for p&p) Can be purchased through all good bookshops and from Whitby Museum's Bookstall. 50p from all copies sold in the Museum go to the Friends of Pannett Park.

Explore Pannett Park and read about its history. The story is similar to that of many public parks in our towns which today are green and pleasant places, free for everyone to use in their leisure time.

• Why and when the idea of creating public parks took hold
• How the Park was named. Who gave it to the people of Whitby and why it was important to him to do so.
• How it was made and who designed and built it in the late 1920s.
• What they all wanted to create.
• What they thought people might like to find in the park.
• What has happened since the 1930s. Plants mature and die, paths wear out, people may want rather different things from their park. What happens then ?

The story is illustrated with a great many photographs, drawings and maps, both historic black and white images taken from many sources and recent colour photographs.