Council have left quite a lot of the park area to be reclaimed by nature, including quite a lot of the footpath edging & as such it looks unkempt. Never seen so many fallen trees !! Not the park I grew up in 50+ years ago. Where have the masses of flowers & Rhododendron bushes gone ?? However, it is still nice to walk through with my wife & to reminisce about literally 1,000s of happy childhood days we had spent there, aged 3 to 16, Riding our bikes, playing football next to the tennis courts & bandstand, the swing park, the Valley shop & animals, the annual Fare on the top fields, picnics & the boating lake & not forgetting sledging on Angel Hill of course. It is a particular shame to remember how that area once was, whose idea was it to plant masses of trees & thus deny literally tens of thousands of children countless hours of fun in the snow on that hill !!?? VERY SAD to know for a fact that IFFFFFFF B H C had been located in South Manchester, it would 100% certainly have been maintained/returned to its former glory of the early 60s. Perhaps if Andy Burnham had any conscience he would intervene !? (BUT looking at the state of Moston Lane these days, I Doubt he would care or even know the area). Franny (65) & Jean (64) both born & bred in Nth Mcr.