{"id":4091,"date":"2011-04-18T11:30:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2011-04-18T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T09:43:35","slug":"first-picnic-of-the-year-brockwell-park-south-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/first-picnic-of-the-year-brockwell-park-south-london\/","title":{"rendered":"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-01.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>On a gorgeous April Sunday\u00a0afternoon, we headed up to Brockwell Park for our first picnic of the year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-10.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-02.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easily one of my very favourite parks in London, Brockwell Park has lots of green space, big trees, a few\u00a0rolling\u00a0hills, tennis courts, paddling pool, lido, greenhouses and a lovely cafe at its highest point.<\/p>\n<p>It also hosts the Lambeth\u00a0Country\u00a0Show, a\u00a0must-see weekend event that takes place annually in the middle of July. \u00a0See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/lambeth_country_show_brockwell_park.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lambeth Country Show photo features here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-03.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-04.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking north towards London &#8211; to the right in the distance you can see the London Eye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-05.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bowling Green.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-06.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Picnic time!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-07.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Canary Wharf in the distance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-08.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wonderfully eccentric\u00a0miniature\u00a0railway that runs parallel to Dulwich Road for about 220 meters,\u00a0adjacent to the Lido.<\/p>\n<p>Built by Roland Baker, the line first opened on 1st June 2002, and is open Saturday &amp; Sundays from May to September 11am &#8211; 5pm (weather permitting), with a trip costing \u00a31.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-09.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>The track\u00a0heading\u00a0towards the Lido.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-11.jpg\" alt=\"First picnic of the year: Brockwell Park, south London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next stop: the Herne Hill Velodrome!<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/features\/brockwell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brockwell park feature<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a gorgeous April Sunday\u00a0afternoon, we headed up to Brockwell Park for our first picnic of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191,57,397,401],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brockwell-park","tag-herne-hill","tag-picnic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brockwell-park-spring-2011-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-13Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}