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This was the Second Lake close to the Park. There used to be a Boathouse on the eastern shore that was once used by the Ellison family who owned Hebburn Hall. The park had been their private garden & the lakes their ponds. It was that landowning family that in the 1860s possibly 70s had earth embankments constructed to form the shape of the lakes as you see them on this photo. The burn that flowed over the area then filled them naturally. Before those lakes were constructed the area was farmland. '