Dulwich Park

[ClareC]

The Court Lane gate was closed this morning when it is usually open, does anyone know why? Also, anyone know what the nice houses in the park were built / used for and why they are boarded up?

[snorky]

why do you want to know ?

[Parker's Folly]

ClareC Wrote:

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> The Court Lane gate was closed this morning when

> it is usually open, does anyone know why? Also,

> anyone know what the nice houses in the park were

> built / used for and why they are boarded up?

I would assume the houses would have originally been lodgings for the park keeper and staff, but I am not 100% certain.

[ClareC]

erm......... which bit ;-)

I run my dogs there before work and when the gate is closed it's pretty inconvenient having to run round to the village entrance - makes catching the 8.15 a rush! As for the houses, just something I wondered about, no reason :-)

[SimonM]

You might like to invest in "Dulwich Park: A park for the people for ever", by Liz Johnson - which I imagine a certain seedy-looking but joyfully non-chain SE22 bookshop may still have. Or if not there, 1 of the village shops.

It was bitterly cold in the park yesterday - only a few hardy souls at the kids playground and a solitary yellow Dulwih Recumbents trike. Amazingly one flurorescent pink rhododenfron is in flower though! And they were sweeping the loose pebbles off the paths at last!

SimonM (who uses the Fireman's Alley gate!)

[SimonM]

P.S. Lots of useful info/history etc also at http://www.dulwichparkfriends.org.uk/

[ClareC]

Thanks for that, will hunt out seedy looking bookshop at the weekend :-)

I am new to East Dulwich - is the Fireman's Alley gate the one between the Court Road and South Circular gates? Any idea if that one is open early?

[SimonM]

Fireman's Alley runs between Lordship Lane and the South Circular, yes. It's between the BT place (automated telephone exchange??) and blocks of flats. I believe there was actually a fire station where the telephone exchange now is once upon a time. I think the gates all open/close in sequence at roughly the same times of day but cannot say this for certain.

[mightyroar]

Where has the tyre swing gone from Dulwich park? It was my kids favourite thing. Alas.

[dulwichmum]

Thanks for pointing this out Mr Mightyroar, my two miss it dreadfully. It is the hi-light of Sunday morning in the park for us.

[lilly123]

oh i love dulwich park i go there nearer th ewinter times as to collect things for my pictures i make like acorns etc have found loads of things here that have helped me out thanks dulwich park i love you

[Ant]

lilly123, your posts would be a lot easier to read if you used some punctuation.

[mockney piers]

perhaps we have a new virginia woolf in our midst wandering round the park with thoughts of dinner parties and rivers and the grim reaper while pondering her next musings on our own fair forum how exciting that would be no anyone anyone bueller

[clare]

no it's e e cummings

[dulwichmum]

Dear Mr Mightyroar,

The tyre swing is back in the park, hurrah!

[Jockey1]

dulwich park.. brings back many a memory from my childhood years!!

[mightyroar]

Ah yes DM there was rapture this morning. Indeed Hurrah for spring and the return of the tyre.