King Edward VII Park, Willesden
Introduction
The photograph on this page of King Edward VII Park, Willesden by David Howard as part of the Geograph project.
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Image: © David Howard Taken: 9 Oct 2013
During WW2 the park was largely filled with sand which was presumably wanted for anti-bomb blast sandbags and for putting into buckets for fire extinguishing. There was a piggery for home food production. A few years after the war it received hundreds of lorry loads of smelly incinerated refuse which was placed over the sand and created a higher and well drained surface for the park. There was an open-air swimming pool at the NW corner of the park. (Graham Cole)
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