This week is Love Parks Week in the UK and it is a celebration of the green spaces in our neighbourhoods.
But we already love our parks as these Hartlepool Mail archive photos show.
We’ve got Santa Fun Runs, Victorian costumes, charity toddles and outdoor shows and it all happened in parks across the town.
So whether it is Ward Jackson or Rossmere, Seaton or Summerhill, Clavering or Burn Valley we have reminders of the past from them all.
1. Wonderful fun in Ward Jackson Park
Eboney and Sienna Williams with Libbie Frostick enjoying the spinning teacups ride at the Friends of Ward Jackson Park annual fun day in 2011. Photo: FRANK REID
2. Roaring back to 2012 at Summerhill
Joshua Newton leading the way on the go karts during the Housing Hartlepool Funday at Summerhill. Photo: FRANK REID
3. Stunning at Seaton
Members of the Victorian and Yesteryear Society on parade at the opening of the Victorian Festival held in Seaton Park. Remember this from 2015? Photo: FRANK REID
4. Sliding back to Burn Valley in 2018
Sledging in Burn Valley Park. Were you pictured 3 years ago? Photo: Frank Reid