Highbury Park Friends

For anyone wanting to look at a paper version, there should be a colour copy (without watermarks) in the Central Library and Kings Heath Library, and the Moseley CDT library have a copy as well.

The page browser is a grid of thumbnails that link to full size page images, so you can browse pages consecutively, or skip around between them. Use it as a tasterr, to skim through teh report before going to have a look at the paper copy.  It’s a great way to give the entire survey a quick browse, particularly if you’re interested in the pictures or maps! (You might need a big screen width to view them comfortably, or perhaps we can whittle down the dimensions sometime soon.)

We plan to take excerpts from the survey and publish them along with comments or other material. For example, we might try to do some sort of overlay showing the ways estate and park boundaries changed over time, using the maps Phillada provides. Or we might look for the exact position that an old photograph was taken, and compare it side by side with a current view.

There will also be posts about park features that could be the focus of restoration projects. The survey is very much intended to provide historical background for such projects, so we hope to use it to reveal information and prompt discussions.