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Victoria Pleasure Gardens (VPG). At the outbreak of WW1, the military requisitioned the site for billeting & training of troops.
First to come from November 1914 to April 1915, was the 2/6th & 2/7th (City of London) Battalions of The London Regiment, and then from May to June 1915, the 2/4th & 2/5th Battalions, Territorial Force, The East Lancashire Regiment.
After WW1, the VPG were refurbished and re-opened for business in May 1923. Sadly only a few short weeks later Edwin Street the proprietor of the VPG died. His daughter, Mrs Daisy Upton inherited the proprietorship and the VPG operated successfully until the outbreak of WW2, at which point the military again requisitioned the site.
But unlike after WW1, it was never to re-open and in the 1950s it became the site for the ‘Victoria Industrial Estate’. '