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We would like to know which surface you would most like to have installed during the upcoming park's development. The idea is to find out which court surface is desired and whether to have one or two different types of tennis court surface/s. The information below gives a brief summary of the characteristics of the four most popular tennis court surfaces used in… Continue reading Which Tennis Court Surface At Hillside Gardens Park do you want?

You may or may not know that Lambeth has allocated a large amount of money to improve the park (more information here and here), providing us with the chance to improve the park for everyone. The council has started the process and a team of landscape architects has sketched out some first ideas. Now we want… Continue reading Survey about the future of the park: Tells us how the park should be improved!

Each year the Friends of Hillside Gardens Park (i.e., we) are organising a day of free fun and activities for the whole family: The Hillside Sports Day. And each year, it is growing and getting better and better. The aim of the day is not only to provide the people around Hillside Gardens Park with… Continue reading Hillside Sports Day (18th of May): Better than Ever

Dear Friend, the wonderful Cath Raitt wrote a comprehensive report summarizing all the important things that happened at the last public consultation. We are very grateful for all the input we got from the fantastic people that came along and for Cath writing this report. You can read the report here. And below are two pictures of the wonderful… Continue reading Hillside Gardens Park: Report from the public meeting held on 25 March 2019

On the evening of 25th March over 30 people gathered in the church hall of St Simon and St Jude on Hillside Road. The purpose of the meeting was for Lambeth with the working group from Friends of Hillside of Garden Park to present the plan for the park. There is just under £600,000 to… Continue reading Friends of Hillside Garden Park- An Exciting Future

25th of November, 1pm, Hillside Gardens Park, picnic area Vivienne Barloga spent her childhood in Streatham, growing up at 156 Downton Avenue, close to our beloved park.  In the 1950's, she immigrated to Canada, and afterwards spent the rest of her happy life in the States near Chicago.  Now her children, Mitch and Karen, have… Continue reading Ceremony: Memorial Bench for Vivienne Barloga

Few parks in the world can keep up with the literary output of its people. After Tony Emerson's "Looking Down, Looking In" (link here), another member of our community has put out a book: Lisa Wright has written "A Most Unladylike Occupation - Lucy Deane, one of the first women factory inspectors". Lisa happened to discovered… Continue reading What to read next? A Most Unladylike Occupation – Lisa Wright

Emily Brontë once wrote these wonderful lines about autumn, which is now starting to leave as well. So, why not read this wonderful poem and then linger a bit on the pictures of our Nature Garden, taken by Stuart Patel, and remember this glorious autumn. Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten… Continue reading Winter is almost here, so let us celebrate autumn

Hello Friends, we had a meeting on the 10th of September 2018. Most of the discussions centred again around the Section 106 money allocation. The meeting agree to setup a steering committee, look into the costing of the most desired projects, and consult with people like you and me, who regularly visit the park what they… Continue reading Friends of Hillside Gardens Meeting (10th September 2018)