The residents of Wilfield Park, Sandymount celebrated the Park being 75 years young this year with a street party on Saturday, September 5th.

Built in 1934, the first ads for Wilfield Park appeared in the Irish Times on the 17th of February 1934, offering a choice of five designs and you could choose your own site. The builders, Kearon & Rothwell, had purchased the large gardens of the original Wilfield House (built c.1800) in 1933, when its lease from the Pembroke Estate had expired.

The celebration was a real community success, with bunting and flags flying, a BBQ by their own celebrity chefs, an overwhelming contribution from the ‘salad ladies’, face painting by the children themselves and acknowledgment of its longest residents Norman Reeves and Jim Reade. September 5th will long be remembered in Wilfield Park as a fun day, when we got to meet some of our neighbours for the very first time.