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BRADFORD PARK (in Beckenham, just off Boon Street) used to be a pond. Samuel Smart, who arrived in New Zealand in 1858 and invented a tar-shingle mixer for sealing footpaths, had a shingle pit which filled up with water. It made a pond that covered five acres and had two islands. In and
around the pond were perch, trout, goldfish, frogs, eels, swans, ducks and black shag. The Smart family used to hold shooting parties at the pond and there was a little jetty and a flat-bottomed punt for rides. Sometimes the pond, which was at the most one metre deep, was frozen hard enough for iceskating.
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Press, 28 April 1981, Page 14
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