Walthamstow Common - all that remains is this basketball court

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#walthamstow #enclosure #commons
This basketball court in Walthamstow bothered me. Why was it here? Why was the railway right next to it?
Then I saw a map of Walthamstow from 1822 and realised the history of this land. This is where a large area of open land - a common - had been before 1850. This is where Walthamstow Common, or Church Common, had been - and all that remains is this basketball court.
Equipment
I shot this with a DJI Mini 2 drone and a Fujifilm X-T4, edited in Final Cut Pro with a bit of Motion 5 work.
Music
Only a touch of music on here:
Open Sea Morning by Puddle of Infinity, from the KZfaq Audio Library
Research
Lots of places for this.
The Vestry House Museum's instagram account showed me the map by John Coe.
British History Online is an amazing resource - www.british-history.ac.uk/
As is Walthamstow Memories website - read the article here about Selbourne Park - www.walthamstowmemories.net/pd...
The Open Spaces Society I'd not heard of before, had information on Commons - www.oss.org.uk/frequently-ask...
00:00 Why is this basketball court where it is?
00:23 Walthamstow common was called Church Common, or Berry Fields
00:47 What is a 'common'?
01:25 How big was Church Common?
02:03 What happened to the common?
02:40 Railways tunnels, cuttings and the common
03:21 This is the only bit of Church Common left

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@HollowayTyre Жыл бұрын

Before the bus station was built, Walthamstow Town Square gardens was bigger, and there was a restaurant or cafe at the back of the library - if I understand correctly. Also, there was a swimming pool next to the library with a similar or matching architecture. So Walthamstow used to have it all in the high street - a park with bowls, a swimming pool, a theatre further down. But hey, give the bus station some love.