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By the end of the 19th century most of the children cared for at the orphanage were in boarding schools and so the institute closed. At that point the grounds were acquired to fulfil another philanthropist's will. James Hood Brooke died in 1865, and in his will bequeathed £9,100 (over £1 million in
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Troubles in the late 1960s the park entered a period of decline. The army moved in and the park was largely closed to the public and the Gwyn building was the frequent target of the IRA. Eventually the building was gutted as a result of firebombing in 1973 and eventually
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2021) to the establishment of a park that would be maintained in perpetuity for the citizens of Derry. When his sister died in 1897 the trustees of his will moved to establish Brooke Park. With some funding from the
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began working on regenerating the park. This resulted in several phases of regeneration with funding coming from a number of benefactors, including the
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also paid a visit to the park and planted trees using the same shovel that his grandfather had used in 1903. In 1953 the newly crowned
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