Gallery: City’s parks fills as families celebrate their dads
Our parks overflowed with life, love and laughter as Father’s Day and the start of the Carnival of Flowers combine.
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THE Garden City’s parks were awash with families enjoying the early days of the Carnival of Flowers and Father’s Day.
Laurel Bank Park overflowed with proud dads and their doting sons and daughters.
Meanwhile, the dining carriages at DownsSteam Tourist Railway and Museum were sold out with families shouting dads to big breakfast cooked by the centre’s volunteers.
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