Philips Park in Manchester opened a year earlier but was funded by public subscription.

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The project has been funded through public subscription and donations from local organisations.

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The King Edward VII Memorial Clock is a Grade II listed building and was erected by public subscription in 1913.

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Money is now being raised by public subscription to build an eight metre high memorial in bronze to be placed by the lake.

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Memorials have since been built in Cannock and Rugeley and a miner's lamp was built in Hednesford six years ago, largely by public subscription.

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She said there was a "real depth of feeling" about the closure of the centre as it "was largely built on public subscription, so we really do care".

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The memorial book will eventually be added to the Bill McLaren archives and those signing it will also be invited to make a financial contribution to the fund as part of the public subscription being organised.

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The plan had the backing of the French government, but it was financed mostly through public subscription, the personal savings of thousands of ordinary French people who regarded de Lesseps as a hero on a Napoleonic scale.

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Voluntary subscription is also preferable to the compulsory, universal variety that pays for the BBC and other European public broadcasters.

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