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Warwick Street, NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, NE6 5AQ

This is the 3rd basket of plums off my tree and, as I type, they are slowly being transformed into jam. Probably the last harvest this year, what's left is either too hard to get to, or beginning to turn over ripe. So, this year we have had just under 17lbs of plums off the one tree

Eversley Place looking towards Wandsworth Road. There are 3 picturesque streets Heaton Park Road and Wandsworth Road. Early 20th century construction and novel at the time because all vehicular access is at the rear of the properties.

One of the original 'Carnegie Trust' funded libraries. Now disused in Favour of a modern building on Shields Road

The entrance to Heaton Park from Heaton Park Road

Junction of Stratford Grove West with Stratford Road. There is a dense network of terraced house streets in this area.

The shopping parade between Cardigan terrace and Falmouth Road. Taken looking toward an entrance to Heaton Park

An old Victorian Library closed down about 8 - 10 years ago (?) and now falling into disrepair. Overlooks Heaton Park and would make a wonderful community / arts centre but despite lobbying from community groups no such luck so far - mind you, has some great ivy on it

Taken at the number 1 bus stop on Heaton Park Rd, looking towards the gates of the park. The black and white timbered house that can be seen on the right is one of the oldest houses in the area and would once, no doubt, have been surrounded by fields. The history of the Park itself is that in the eighteenth century two powerful merchants Matthew White and Richard Ridley owned many collieries in Heaton. The families where united through marriage which meant their landholding in Heaton included virtually the whole township. The amalgamated estate was broken up and disposed of in 1835. Armourer Donkin was recorded as owning the land in 1840. Donkin a business partner of Armstrong bequeathed his land to Sir William Armstrong (1810 – 1900) in 1857. In 1878 Sir William Armstrong was already admitting public to his park. Mr Alderman Hedley cited it as a place the population could resort to therefore negating the need for large sums of money to be spent on acquiring the land. In June 1879 the Heaton section of Armstrong Park was opened by the Mayor Mr Alderman Thomas Robinson. This section amounting to 22 and a half acres was purchased from a Mr Addison Potter, at a cost of £12,562.10s

Mainly frozen solid slush to be honest