These fields as ponds known as Clapham Common in South London are bordered by large houses. A fashionable area from the 1790's when its inhabitants included evangelical reformers and wealthy business people.The bandstand in the background was erected in 1890 and is the largest bandstand in London.
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So beautiful city. CITY, with capitals.
London can be proud of its green parks.
what a beautiful setting
Ooo... I learned something new today thanks to you!! Makes me want to visit there.
Looks like you've lost all of your snow and cold. I can almost see Spring in this picture.
I guess that today there may be more wealthy business people than evangelical reformers? :-)
Lovely view Mo.
You know they pronounced it 'Clahm', to rhyme with 'calm', when it went slightly upmarket in the nineties?
You have to laugh.
I live just off Clapham Common. When I walk across the Common, I try to imagine this flat expanse of grass as it was during World War II when it was given over to the growing of cabbages and other vegetables: apparently four V2 rockets landed here. The church where the Clapham Sect gathered still stands, complete with a Blue Plaque. Go further back in time and this was supposed to be a happy hunting-ground for highwaymen as it was then a densely wooded area on the main route to Portsmouth, as mentioned briefly in Matthew Kneale's excellent and enjoyable "English Passengers", fictional but steeped in historical research.
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