Highbury Park Friends

Our Saturday morning walk was very pleasant, a bit informative, and fostered lots of imaginative discussion.
We traced the footprint of old features, and discovered an unnoticed but interesting aspect of the garden wall.
We spent a good chunk of time speculating on the precise location of buildings and things shown on the 1884 Ordnance Survey map. [...]

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One of the ways we want to use Phillada Ballard’s Historic Landscape Appraisal is as a reference and organising device for a series of walks. We are calling them Historic Survey Walks, the first of which will be this Saturday, from 11:00, meeting at the Alcester Road entrance to the Park.
This will be a short [...]

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