East Park

The best public park.
We had an afternoon here with four kids.
Quite a bit to do. We all went on the cheap splashboat at 80p a go. Which was a laugh. Then on the amazing value swan pedaloes at only £2.50 for a boat full.
We walked through the gardens and looked on at the great splash world for little ones, which is enclosed and full of outside water things to along a man made river which is safe and fun.
Didn’t see any unruly teenagers or witness any anti social behaviour at all, didn’t even see any threatening dogs which is amazing for an inner city park.
The animal discovery centre wasn’t very good. There wasn’t any information about the animals and the walk through aviary had very few birds in it.
Also on offer was fishing in a large lake, special hire bikes for disabled, tennis, a ‘Khyber pass’ ravine for kids to climb and play in. loads of space to play, boating lake for model boats and the pavilion café which served a can of Coca cola at only 60p
A good couple of hours out

Lovely local park especially in the summer. Nice views and lots of space for the kids to run about. Great little animal area where kids can get close to nature! Only bad point is that maybe there should be a larger playground or more than one like there used to be.