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A tiro de piedra del bullicio de Camden, los londinenses encuentran en este parque un oasis de quietud donde crecen hasta 650 especies de plantas silvestres
El parque Hampstead Heath de LondresCARLOS FRESNEDA
La gente sube a lo más alto de Hampstead Heath para ver Londres emergiendo entre las copas de los árboles. Pero la experiencia más reconfortante es sin duda la inmersión total en la naturaleza que uno siente en los estanques, en los bosques de robles y hayas y en las praderas donde crecen hasta 650 especies de plantas silvestres. Estamos en el primer Parque del Silencio de la capital británica, un oasis de quietud a tiro de piedra del bullicio de Camden.
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home by Robert Shelton, edited by Elizabeth Thomson (2021 edition)
- Credit: André Langlois
As the great American songwriter Bob Dylan reaches his 80th birthday next week, an updated version of a classic biography has been released.
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home was written by Robert Shelton, a former Spaniards Road resident and often said to be the founder of rock music journalism.
Shelton, born in Chicago, became friends with Dylan in Greenwich Village, New York, during the 1960s folk revival. The biography was long planned but did not see the light of day until 1986, and even then Shelton was not happy with the results of his editor and publishers’ work.
A notice from Transport in London in this week’s
Barnet Borough Times outlines proposals to stop vehicles from using entering, exiting or proceeding on Hendon Way at its junction with the Vale. The order is set to come into force each night from 9pm on March 1 until 5am on March 31 or until the works have been completed, whichever is sooner. This is to allow resurfacing and speed camera installation works to take place on Hendon Way. Traffic will be diverted via The Vale, Greenfield Gardens, Cricklewood Lane and Hendon Way when the restrictions are in place. Meanwhile, construction and roadworks are set to cause disruption to several roads in the Barnet area from tomorrow.
In the second quarter of the 19th century London was growing ever faster as a conurbation, the privately owned green space on its outskirts being sold off for housing.
The largely unregulated development of this kind and on this scale brought with it dangers to public health, and loss of amenity and open space.
So it was that public welfare campaigners, conservationists, politicians and newspapers came together to call for the saving and protection of the diminishing number of the capital s open spaces.
Some owners of these open spaces were sympathetic to the idea of preservation and cooperated to make their land public, but the Lord of the Manor of Hampstead was not one of them.