Boston Manor Park Urban District Council. Some land was developed as housing and the park was opened to the public on 11 September 1924. Comprising an area of surrounding the manor house, the park is accessed from Boston Manor Road on the eastern perimeter. The construction of the M4 motorway in 1964-5 was the biggest alteration to the park landscape, dissecting the park from north-west to south-east perimeters. The Grand Union Canal and River Brent run along the western perimeter, the canal taking in what is now known as Clitheroes or Clitheroe's Lock 99. The canalside is a designated Nature Conservation Area. Notable
Granny Was a Buffer Girl to an independent adult after hearing her family's stories. Beside the 1986 Carnegie Medal for British children's books, "Granny Was a Buffer Girl" was a runner up in the Boston Globe-Horn Book awards in 1988. "Granny" was adapted for BBC Radio by the author in 1990 and published as a play in 2003. Granny Was a Buffer Girl Granny Was a Buffer Girl is a realistic young-adult novel by Berlie Doherty, published by Methuen in 1986. It recounts stories of love, loyalty and change in several generations of a Sheffield family from the 1930s to the 1980s, linking them to