Some were the work of T. C. Hine and Watson Fothergill, the well-known Nottingham architects. The Nottingham people must have been saddened to lose their chance to walk and stroll here. This was the time of the wealth of the lace trade and other large industries, and many a factory owner built his house here. The land is now owned by Oxford University. After the First World War and the advent of the car, some of the owners began to build houses further from the centre of the City, and after the Peace of 1945 many more moved.
Some houses are however still in private hands and others have been converted into flats.
St. James' Church was opened on Standard Hill, on the edge of The Park, in 1808. When St. James' Church closed in 1933 the congregation joined St. Peter's, and most of The Park came into the combined parish of St. Peter and St. James. The activities recorded from the earliest days of the Vestry notes reflect the care, time and money spent on the poor of the parish by St. Peter's Church. The care of the poor had always been part of the work of the Parish, from the time of the Guilds onwards. This must have been in the late eighteenth century.