Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ing by purchase or otherwise, andarranging for the use of our fellow citizens,spaces which would inevitably be securedas building sites ; converting disused church-yards and burial grounds into gardens ; andso on indefinitely. To the unremittingefforts of this Association we owe thepreservation and beautifying of many pic-turesque old spots threatened with beingruthlessly monopolised by the modern habitof getting the best possible return in hardcash out of every available inch of land inthis crowd
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ing by purchase or otherwise, andarranging for the use of our fellow citizens,spaces which would inevitably be securedas building sites ; converting disused church-yards and burial grounds into gardens ; andso on indefinitely. To the unremittingefforts of this Association we owe thepreservation and beautifying of many pic-turesque old spots threatened with beingruthlessly monopolised by the modern habitof getting the best possible return in hardcash out of every available inch of land inthis crowded city. To fully appreciate the advantages offeredby our London gardens and open spaces theyshould be visited at various times, and onevery day of the week. Take, for instance,any ordinary morning, and see the childrenof the neighbourhood being wheeled in theirmail carts or running beside their nurses,who take an occasional rest on the seats,in Highgate Woods; on Primrose Hill; atRichmond and Kew; on the commons ofStreatham, Wandsworth, and Clapham. See them again on a school half-holiday, A. TO THE BAND (ISLE OF DOGS) and watch tiie bo)-s and girls race about^enjo\ing their liberty ; or be there laterwhen business folk get an evening airingafter office hours. Go on a Bank hoIida_\- to Golders Hill,and see the vast numbers of tired mid-Londoners lounge through the day, imagin-ing themselves in the depths of the countrj-because out of the noise and dust of theirordinary surroundings. There they stroll,and regather courage, under the fine treesthat were once the pride of Sir SpencerWells, the famous doctor. A scheme forpurchasing for the public from his heirsthis his Hampstead estate was initiated bythe Metropolitan Public Gardens Associationand leading Hampstead residents, and weare lastingly indebted to the voluntarycommittee formed to promote this purpose,b\ whose zeal and energy the ;^42,ooo re-quired was raised in a comparativelyshort time. Go also to Waterlow Pa
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