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Number 8 looks more like two Carrion Crows (Corvus corone) to me. And apologies for the lack of italics for the scientific name.
Robert Butlin | 01.04.20 - 7:10 a.m. | #
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DG, thank you for taking us on the Nature Trail today. I really needed that fresh air and exercise.
I wonder where you'll take us tomorrow? I'd better get up early to fill a flask and make a snack. 😉
Jo W | 01.04.20 - 7:26 a.m. | #
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Perhaps it will be to Neasden's famous football club, and its legendary manager, Ron Knee.
(Private Eye is all that's keeping me sane these days)
Sarah | Homepage | 01.04.20 - 7:45 a.m. | #
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Tangentially, don't forget Mari Wilson, the Neasden queen of soul, with her beehive haircut and 1982 hit "Just what I've always wanted".
Half a Physicist | 01.04.20 - 8:50 a.m. | #
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My one trip to Neasden involved getting off at the tube to head to the big blue and yellow store (other stores are available).
The views on that journey (and subsequent bus ride to Kilburn) didn't exactly make me want to return so it's nice to see a better side of Neasden...
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 01.04.20 - 9:02 a.m. | #
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Passed through Neasden station on Metropolitan trains often over the past 50 years. "Neasden" always reminds me of the Monty Python sketch of fully equipped climbers crawling along the pavement of the main shopping street.
Keith | 01.04.20 - 9:11 a.m. | #
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Ah, Gladstone Park, my local park, very pleasant but unfortunately spoiled at the moment by the increased number of joggers some of who seem very reluctant to deviate off a straight line to allow others to pass with the mandatory 2 metres of space.
Presumably some of them are an overspill from the closed local gyms.
Richard | 01.04.20 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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Ah Neasden. You've been here before DG and a very fine article that was too - it reminded me of childhood trips to see a family friend who lived on Quainton Street. A different world for sure.
THC | 01.04.20 - 9:55 a.m. | #
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*splutters*
But, but, but... it's April 1st...
COVID-19 seems to have ruined everything that there was to look forward to...
Blue Witch | Homepage | 01.04.20 - 10:02 a.m. | #
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Quite, Blue Witch! This was not the post I was expecting today, but jolly interesting all the same and not too far from me to visit once the travel restrictions have been lifted.
Robert Butlin: I agree. Blackbirds wouldn't be out in the open like that either.
Cornish Cockney | 01.04.20 - 10:11 a.m. | #
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A nice looking park that, one for my list of places to visit one of these days...
Mikey C | 01.04.20 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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What is/was Walpamur?
Jonathan Wadman | 01.04.20 - 10:31 a.m. | #
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Daisies, ye flowers of lowly birth,
Embroiderers of the carpet earth,
That stud the velvet sod,
John Clare
Joho | Homepage | 01.04.20 - 10:45 a.m. | #
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Walpamur - the Wallpaper Manufacturing Co - originally founded in Lancashire and later became Crown Paints.
timbo | 01.04.20 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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I too had to look up Walpamur, although I was familiar with the other three. I must revisit Betjeman some time as I'm sure I'd appreciate him more now than being force fed at school all those decades ago.
Tim | 01.04.20 - 11:17 a.m. | #
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A gem. Thank you, and for the links to Betjeman's Metroland and Willie Rushden's Neasden.
Bob L-S | 01.04.20 - 12:00 p.m. | #
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12 - I admire the way vegetation will grow in the most unpromising locations.
Still Anon | 01.04.20 - 1:29 p.m. | #
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I taught cycling in some of the schools around Gladstone Pk & often took the kids through the park on the way to on-road cycling.
The Torah Temimah school on Parkside had a strict dress code which we were warned about in advance; I still giggle at the memory of my Danish colleague turning up in his cycling shorts.
A group of us did a Dr Bike at the annual Gladstonbury festival in, I think, 2011 & 2012? - mainly I remember the unbelievably loud music, & the hilly ride back to Islington with a full kit of tools & spares.
10 years of cycle training allowed me to spend lots of time working in parks all over London. Summertimes we’d be amazed to get paid for doing what we loved. Winters could be cruel!
Toni | 01.04.20 - 2:13 p.m. | #
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Used to be an outdoor swimming pool in Gladstone Park , expect it’s long closed and knocked down now .
Robert | 01.04.20 - 3:50 p.m. | #
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Don't forget Sid and Doris Bonkers, Neasden FC's most famous supporters.
MO | 01.04.20 - 4:22 p.m. | #
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Keep this iu, DG, and you will shortly be offering competition to Bug Woman.
Brian | 01.04.20 - 4:49 p.m. | #
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Minor family claim to fame - The milkman doing the rounds in Neasden whilst the Willie Rushton song plays, just before Eric Simms comes on, was my late grandad
Graham T | 01.04.20 - 9:00 p.m. | #
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I reckon that's a major claim to fame!
If I'd been a year older I'd likely have appeared in Metro-land myself, as part of the school orchestra at the Croxley Revels :)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.04.20 - 10:48 p.m. | #
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Wot no poisson d'avril?
Dayslate | 03.04.20 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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