| 1600 |
Valentines consists of two tenements under common ownership |
| 1652 |
Valentines separately owned |
| 1696 |
Valentines acquired by Elizabeth Tillotson. Valentines House probably built - a three storey Jacobean building of red brick |
| 1702 |
Valentines passes to George Finch |
| 1714 |
Valentines passes to William Finch |
| 1724 |
Valentines purchased by Robert Surman. House and gardens improved |
| 1754 |
Valentines sold to Sir Charles Raymond - work carried out on house and grounds |
| 1788 |
Donald Cameron buys Valentines |
| 1797 |
Valentines bought by Robert Wilkes |
| 1838 |
Charles T Holcombe buys Valentines |
| 1870 |
Valentines passes to Sarah Ingleby on Charles Holcombe's death |
| 1871 |
Two story extension to house |
| 1873 |
Extensive renovation and improvements made to gardens and grounds |
| 1898/99 |
Ilford District Council buys land for Central Park - opens to public on 16th September 1899 |
| 1900 |
Bandstand built |
| 1906 |
Sarah Ingleby dies - her son donates grounds adjoining Valentines House to Ilford Council in memory of his mother. Council buys land close to American Garden to link donated grounds and existing park |
| 1912 |
Council buys Mansion (Valentines House) and additional land south of the house |
| 1924 |
Middlefield Farm bought by Council (Middlefield was the other original tenement that formed the original holding in the early 1600s. At the time is was owned by the London County Council) |
By 1924 Valentines Park was more or less as it is today - changes have been made to the park's infrastructure, plantings and buildings - but the area occupied by the park is still the same.
