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golders hill park
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Logger above gps below
Magdala Pub where Ruth Ellis shot her lover |
Plastic flowers |
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The gardens on the approach to Hampstead Heath were full of flower |
Ornamental quince |
George Orwell lived here |
Start of Hampstead Heath |
Views from Parliament Hill - some of the buildings on the map below. |
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View from Parliament Hill |
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We walked across the heath |
Snipe? |
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We saw two jays |
Is the blue disc a drainage device... |
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Love the shadows |
Splendid loo |
Hazy glimpse of the city |
Jack Straw's Castle |
Bracket fungi |
White dead nettle |
Ramsons |
Fungus |
Emu running with the deer |
Narcissi in the grass |
A chicken? |
In the Stumpery |
This enlarges greatly |
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Fritillaria imperialis |
Fountain |
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Daisies |
Bull and Bush where we had a good lunch |
Pieris japonica var. |
Fritillaria meleagris |
Corylopsis |
Anemone blanda |
Tulips alongside the Butterfly House |
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Butterfly House |
Aroid |
Emerald swallowtail |
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Blue Morpho |
Small white eggs |
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Tree Nymph |
Asian swallowtail |
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Malachite |
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Egyptian geese |
The law |
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Camellia |
The Pergola | ||
The Pergola is one of the hidden delights of Hampstead Heath. It overlooks West Heath, and was the dream of William H Lever, later Lord Leverhulme, a wealthy idealist, patron of the arts, architecture and landscape gardening; and Thomas Mawson, the celebrated landscape architect. | |||
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/hampstead-heath/heritage/Pages/the-pergola.aspx | |||
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Pergola and Hill Garden were once attached to the Edwardian style mansion |
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Inverforth House |
This dancer was photographing himself |
Way down |
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Nandina domestica |
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Gothic monstrosity |
Charming house |
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We went home via Hampstead Heath ad West Hampstead |