I might be wrong but this park looks like Burncoat Park today the Old State Mutual Builing stands accross from there. There were two ponds and I think that the stone bridge in the picture about Cross over one of them

There were three ponds at North (Burncoat) park. There was a small gold fish pond, and a large pond for skating that went under the stone bridge. The hockey pond was on the other side of the bridge.

Yes it is Burncoat park. I lived there for yrs. I was either there or i was at my Grandmothers on Plesent street, while growing up. Went to the little red school house before burncoat school. Never got to go to the new jr. high. i moved that year.

The stone bridge was in North (Burncoaet) Park between the large and small ponds. It was in the part of the park taken by the construction of I-290 where it crosses Lincoln Street. Also lost to the city at that time was the section of Green Hill Park known as Holland Rink, with a pond for swim meets, an archery range, and a community house. A basketball court now stands on what used to be a bowling green prior to the land taking for the highway. Worcester's annual fourth of July fireworks display was launched from the Holland Rink area, and viewed by thousands sitting on the slope of the hill leading up to the golf course.

there is a granite marker at burncoat park, behind thorndyke road school, that says "North Park". the park was dramatically transformed by the construction of interstate 290.

I can still remember the day I drove my first english racer bicycle over this bridge. Not knowing how to use hand brakes I crashed into an older gentelman who was not very happy. At each end of the bridge were rock towers which we used to play and hide in. I can also remember when they drained the small pond and coming home with all kinds of frogs and crawfish along with myself covered in pond mud...those were the days..

This bridge is still visible today. The view is from Davidson Road looking toward Greenhill Park. The water has been filled in, but the top of the bridge remains.

This picture was most taken from the Melrose Street side of the pond, if you look closely at the picture there were four round castlelike turrets that were built in each corner of the bridge that we would play in. This entire section of North (Burncoat) Park was taken by I-290. This is a good example why it is important for people to stand up and stop the taking and development of parklands to prevent further losses of treasures like this.