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Friends Of Ropner Park Group
FoRP Craft Group meets regularly once a month. The days vary so that all members can attend.  Craft group meetings times in 2014.    9.30 in the Ropner Park Cafe.

Thursday 8th. May  , Friday 6th. June

WHAT TO DO AND SEE IN ROPNER PARK

Friends Of Ropner Park Group
Friends Of Ropner Park Group

Bandstand Entertainment

There will be entertainment on the bandstand every Sunday afternoon from June to September.
The band concerts are organised and paid for by the
Friends of Ropner Park
Friends Of Ropner Park Group
Friends Of Ropner Park Group
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The Ropner Park Lake

The Ropner Park Lake
The Ropner Park Lake

CAFE - OPENING TIMES

Sunday Lunches only £4.50

Meat and Yorkshire Pudding, Mashed Potato, Three Fresh Vegetables.
Bookings are necessary . Ring the cafe on 633767. Starts 8th. Sept.

Leaflets are available in the cafe for a childrens` guide and games, orienteering and park walks.

Kids Adventure Playground

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The adventure playground and cafe

History of Ropner Park

In June 1890, Major Robert Ropner offered a piece of land to the people of Stockton which could be used as a public park, providing the local council would lay it out tastefully and keep it for ever. Just over 3 years later, on 4th October 1893, the park was officially opened by the then Duke and Duchess of York .

RECENT History -Aided by a heritage lottery fund grant of over £2.65m. Stockton Council have been able to restore the park to what it was originally, a typical Victorian park
The Ropner Park Lake
The lake has been drained and restored, and the fountainis now in working order. A new bandstand has been built to a design recognisable the world over. An adventure playground is enjoyed by families and tennis courts are in place for the energetic.Nearby is a new pavilion which houses the cafe, which is run by the Friends of Ropner Park and is open every day.

The new, restored Ropner Park has proved to be very popular, having something to please visitors of all ages.

Sir Robert Ropner  -  1838- 1924
Sir Emil Hugo Oscar Robert Ropner, 1st Baronet 1838-1924, was a British shipbuilder, shipowner, and Conservative Member of Parliament. He was known simply as Robert Ropner.

He was born 1838 in Magdeburg, Prussia He emigrated to England and worked for a coal export concern before building up a fleet of colliers and founding in 1874 the Ropner Shipping Company in Hartlepool.

In 1888 Robert Ropner acquired a shipyard at Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham. Ropner established a successful shipbuilding firm, which built many trunk deck ships. No longer limited to hauling coal, Ropner also established a company to operate tramp steamers. Although the shipyard went into liquidation soon after what was then known as the Great War the shipping company continued through both World Wars, despite heavy wartime losses of vessels
Robert Ropner served as High Sheriff of Durham in 1896 and from 1900 to 1910 represented the constituency of Stockton-on-Tees in the House of Commons. In 1904 he was created Baronet of Preston Hall, Stockton-on-Tees, in the County Palatine of Durham, and of Skutterskelfe Hall, Hutton Rudby, in the North Riding of York

Ropner died February 1924, aged 85, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son John. His third son William Ropner was the father of the Conservative politician Sir Leonard Ropner, 1st Baronet of Thorp Perrow.


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