Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Victoria Ground (Leeds)
Notable park. Variously called "Leeds Royal Park", "Leeds New Gardens", "Tommy Clapham’s Park", "Leeds Horticultural Gardens" (http://www.hydeparkplan.org.uk/pdfs/HPhistory1.pdf (page 2)). Sources to satisfy  include https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=r2cKAQAAMAAJ p 62-67,  https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pH9nAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Tommy+Clapham’s+Park%22&dq=%22Tommy+Clapham’s+Park%22 p77-79, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=n81AAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Leeds+New+Gardens%22&dq=%22Leeds+New+Gardens%22, https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1eEhAQAAIAAJ&searchwithinvolume&q=Royal+Park+Estate and https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AWINAAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Victoria+Ground It was clearly a notable location in Leeds, not just used for cricket (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28126136/royal_park_event/, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28125608/victoria_cricket_ground/). It was https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gKJYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA123 converted into public gardens and the roads Royal Park Road, Royal Park Grove, Royal Park Road Avenue and Royal Park Terrace were named after it. Appears to have been the site of the first Balloon-related death in the UK, in 1887 (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NoRnAAAAMAAJ&dq=Fatal+balloon&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Fatal+balloon). Cricket-wise it hosted matches involving William Clarke's All-England Eleven (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28125718/allengland/), and regularly Leeds Cricket Club vs e.g. York and Bradford (e.g. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28126067/leeds_v_york_1/), and was regarded by some as the principal cricket ground in Leeds (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28126113/royal_park_leeds/). A 1902 work of fiction commented on "the bye-gone glories of Tommy Clapham's park, an institution which was at one time part and parcel of the town of Leeds, and which far outshone in popularity the vaunted glories of Roundhay Park or any other of the present-day amusements provided for the toiling masses of the city" (https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67425070
— User:Pontificalibus, 12:41, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
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