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Perhaps I should expand. Everyone talks about how lovely Dulwich Park is....it is but personally I find it all a bit too "formal" and lacking in stroller / buggy diversity. It's busier now too and the days of having a sneaky smoke in the American Garden are long gone..at least at weekends. Peckham rye is just a bit more untamed.
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I have a soft spot for Dulwich Park as it brings back so many memories of when I was growing up from a child to a teenager and beyond. Some of my parents ashes are scattered there. I walked through it last week and I have to say these days I find it rather dull in comparison to Peckham Rye, which I walked across on Saturday. Peckham Rye is a glorious space, especially on a sunny day. We are also very fortunate to have Horniman's Gardens nearby too, though much smaller than the other two it is still a very pleasant setting to sit quietly in the sun and read a good book during the week when most people are at work and the kids are at school.
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Peckham Rye is my favourite too, have lots of happy memories of meeting friends, walking or jogging round on Sat with mccabes group, plays in the park, picnics etc. It is such a beautiful park with hidden gems. Was also on my doorstep so that helped.


I also love Nunhead Cemetery for walks, in places you cannot hear traffic & it's hard to believe you're in London until you stop at the magnificent view over to St.Paul's.


I have painful memories of a boot camp in a Dulwich Park.

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> I love the one directly behind my house

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> But i'm not telling you where that is

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> Don't want no Dulwich riff raff blow in's in Upper

> Sydenham

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> Opppp!




Yeah I like Wells Park too. To us it's "the pigeon park" because my daughter used to love chasing the pigeons near the duck pond. Although a friend calls it "the peado park" due to number of little naked kids running around in the water play in summer (she lives close and loves the park by the way).

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Crystal Palace is an odd one. Many great things about it, and I love the foundations of the building and the big steps that would have led up to it, has a real sense of history about it.


BUT


There is also something a bit shabby and run down about it. and a lot of space they could do something with.


Nice playground though, especially the sandpit.

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Peckham Rye is fantastic and partly due to the work and campaigning of Friends of Peckham Rye Park. 20 years ago or so, like many parks in London it was suffering from years of postwar neglect and wasn't the lovely, characterful space it is today. But though I favour Peckham Rye, in a week or so, Dulwich Park will briefly beat it when the rhododendrons bloom - they are really spectactular.
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> Cheers, was Saturday following a couple of pints

> at the Ivy House (following the football at DHFC).

> Was a beautiful day and evening.


Was that game a draw? That picture reminds me of a Close Encounter for some reason.


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