Showing posts with label Battersea Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Battersea Park. Show all posts

Monday, 24 March 2014

LOVE BLOSSOMS

Took the grandkids to Battersea Park yesterday.  There is an adventure playground and a children's zoo and 83 hectares of parkland to run around in.

It sits on the banks of the Thames.  Here's the Battersea pagoda with Albert Bridge in the background.


Nearby are also two of my favourite structures - the iconic (for fans of Pink Floyd) Battersea Power Station


and the Battersea gasometer.  I used to pass this on the train every day and thought it would be cool to live at the top of it one day.  I don't think it actually has accommodation in it, despite what appear to be windows.

Anyway, whilst in the park I did a spot of hanami (cherry blossom viewing).




 


And, as usual, took too many photographs of cherry trees.  So, as an antidote, here's a pic of my favourite tree, a London plane tree.


And here's a Battersea Park bench.  Because I liked it.