Mowbray Park
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Mowbray Park is a municipal park in the centre of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, located a few hundred yards from the busy thoroughfares of Holmeside and Fawcett Street and bordered by Sunderland
The bandstand in Mowbray Park
Sunderland War Memorial located just outside the park
William Hall Drinking Fountain
Statue of Jack Crawford
Victoria Hall disaster
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On 16 June 1883, a crowd crush caused by the distribution of free prizes resulted in the deaths of 183 children at the Victoria Hall in Sunderland, England.
Mowbray Park
…NU". The fountain was repaired and restored with the re-opening of Mowbray Park in 2000. Mowbray Park was the original site of the memorial for the Victoria Hall disaster of 1883 in which 183 children were trampled to death in the Victoria Hall, which overlooked Mowbray Park. The marble statue of a mother holding her…
Poster advertising the variety show at which the children died
Illustration of the disaster, from Le Journal illustré