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Will the Olympic Park be a Royal Park when it is re-opened and renamed the Queen Elizabeth Park?

Agent Z | 15.04.13 - 9:21 a.m. | #

God bless you, dear DG, for this seasonal contribution.

Kathryn Edwards | 15.04.13 - 12:33 p.m. | #

I had a feelin spring might finally be stirring when I saw my first moth of the year on Saturday night, followed yesterday morning by the first butterfly I've seen this year - a Holly Blue, near Waterloo.
I too got to walk through Green Park, Hyde Park and St James's Park: great to see so many people out enjoying the sun, and to see flowers and blossom on some of the trees.
St James's Park topped my list, for the impressive variety of waterbirds they have there.

RogerW | 15.04.13 - 12:39 p.m. | #

Will the Olympic Park be a Royal Park when it is re-opened and renamed the Queen Elizabeth Park?

Victoria Park is named after a monarch, but isn't a Royal Park.

The Royal Parks are officially owned by The Crown and are still technically private property -- into which we humble servants per graciously permitted entry.

IanVisits | 15.04.13 - 12:57 p.m. | #

Wow. That's something of a whirlwind tour. Thought there was more windchill than usual ;)

Tim | 15.04.13 - 2:55 p.m. | #

I never knew that the Brompton Cemetery is a Royal Park. Do you know what quirk of history resulted in that one cemetery, and no other, being run by the Royal Parks?

| 15.04.13 - 3:12 p.m. | #

So how did you get around? Drive or PT and walk/cycle or whatever?

xmb53 | 15.04.13 - 3:23 p.m. | #

I too am curious - nay, suspicious - of your mode of travel. Was this a webcam tour?

Wayne | 15.04.13 - 7:18 p.m. | #

Tube, bus, walk, bus, walk, train, tube, walk, tube, walk, bus, walk, tube, walk, tube, DLR, walk, DLR, bus.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.04.13 - 7:22 p.m. | #

Trust DG to spot the details. I do wonder what makes rubbish look obviously Russian. As Maxwell Smart might have said, "The old message in the rubbish bin, chief." And then there’s the man walking through Brompton Cemetery carrying a large beach ball. Slightly unusual. Some kind of signal perhaps? Could there be a connection to the St James's Park rubbish bin?

Great Aunt Annie | 15.04.13 - 11:02 p.m. | #

Regarding Spring in the parks. Driving back from Alicante to UK was like passing though all the seasons in a few days. The area around Alicante was warm at 28C strong sun and green trees and oranges to pick. The area around the Pyrenees had mountains with snow. Southern France had similar trees to UK but all now in leaf. Then back to UK and what seems winter!

Bushey Park used to contain a USAF camp, I used to go there on open days in the 1950’s. It was the first time I saw a tenpin bowling alley as they had not been introduced to the UK public back then. You could also get a large Coke with crushed ice, where as in the UK shops it would be small and certainly not filled with crushed ice. There was a military hospital in Bushey Park and an American school. All now demolished. One of the “lakes” had paddle boats for hire. The bus route 27 which today terminates at Hammersmith used to run to Teddington station and on Sundays became the 27A and ran through Bushey Park to Hampton Court.

Missing the sun in Spain may go back next month!.

John is back from holiday | 16.04.13 - 6:19 p.m. | #











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