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In respect to the golf club - a club is different to a course and you can have separate clubs play the same course. This is more common in Scotland where several clubs, with their own club houses, will use the same course. That’s what seems to be happening in this case with the Forest club playing at the Hainault course.
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My late parents’ ashes are interred in Forest Park Cemetery.
Despite trying, I too have yet to find the entrance to Hainault Lodge Local Nature Reserve. The modern housing at Five Oaks Lane followed decades of ribbon development there, mostly without planning permission – it had become quite a shanty town. Much of the land was subsequently compulsorily purchased, the unregulated buildings demolished, and the new estate built. |
I delivered newspapers to five Oaks Lane in the early 60s Then It was mainly a caravan site occupied by Fairs irs people and travellers. I also remember going scrumping in the grounds of. Hainault Lodge and also retrieving lost(?) golf balls for resale they were not happy. At the golf club. Happy Days
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"Thing 1 on Hog Hill" - only when I got to the end and re-read the title did I understand why you hadn't mentioned Redbridge Recycling Centre.
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I doubt many of the children living on the "collection" of 425 homes on Five Oaks Lane will be walking or cycling to school. Greedy is a word that comes to mind. St Luke's Park on the former Runwell Hospital site in Wickford shows how these isolated new villages can be developed successfully.
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I paused reading the blog to give the "marketing collateral" a good look. Shuttle bus? Ha I thought like as if that ever happened. A few lines later we learn it did but didn't last. Quelle surprise.
I suspect buyers may also be experiencing remorse as they make the 7km walk back from the New/ Blue Boar at Abridge. A footpath out of the northern end of the development would help. On the plus side the 247 bus runs every 10 minutes. Most rural communities can only dream of such provision of course. The far end of the development is well over a km away from the bus stop however. Perhaps if the development were to be expanded down the hill or even up onto the golf course there'd be sufficient people to support that shuttle bus and maybe even a primary school and shops. |
I found the Visitors Guide for the Five Oaks cemetery fascinating, particularly the various reminders of things not to do. I could picture the writer sighing as he drafted a list of customs tnat have obviously become common but are actually nothing to do with the Muslim faith; I can think of a few equivalents that are sometimes tacked on to Christian (or perhaps more accurately trad. English) burials. Then right in the middle is the totally practical "Under no circumstances should the geese be fed". Love it!
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Thank you for visiting the Gardens of Peace. I have multiple relatives resting there, still hard to fathom that. So many inhabitants will have been buried there not thinking that their last resting place would be in a foreign land. The first generations would have assumed that they would return to their homelands, and be buried with family in their ancestral sites. So whilst beautiful and fit for purpose, this Garden is a liminal space in a sense, one that shouldn't really exist.
Photos whilst not allowed, still get taken, I have some from just last month when relatives went to visit my parent. And I am grateful for that rule breaking because otherwise due to restrictions that have no basis in the faith, women were prohibited from visiting gravesides. Not in every community in the diaspora I must add, but my particular community followed this, so for a year after my parent's passing I had not seen or been to their graveside. I eventually put my foot down and made a break for it on a visit, following my male relatives. My other parent was furious but I didn't really care any more, not when I could see whole families at the sides of their loved ones' resting places. Currently hoping against hope and praying that I do not have to participate in a funeral there in the next six months. |
DG, it just occurred to me that as my parent's grave is next to the pathway, you will almost certainly have walked past it to get to the far end. As a long-time reader this has actually blown my mind.
The geese are a pain though, they s**t all over the graves. Bloody cobra chickens. |
If you go beyond the cycling centre reception desk towards the changing rooms there is a space with a hatch from which cake and refreshments are served - not sure if this is just an event thing.
Interesting to see what was there beforehand. Despite the lack of contours in Stratford I remember running up what at the time seemed like a massive hill at the old Eastway cycle circuit as a kid. |
I only thought there was the Dulwich Dog Kennel Hill. Interesting to read about a second one.
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