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WhyWaitForever - London - Images of Regents Park
The pictures below were taken in Regents Park on a sunny late June day WhyWaitForever - London - Sights has a link to the official Royal Parks site.
We started at Warren Street Tube walking along the busy Marylebone Road passing the BT Tower on our left and then the memorial to the minor but colourful US President John F Kennedy. This President ruled the US for a brief period at the start of the nineteen sixties. Some might remember him for his glamourous liasons. His assasination in Dallas Texas and the aftermath were the first such events that were instantly broadcast around the world on television and thus ensured his notoriety. To some he made bombastic speeches and committed with horrendous losses ill trained and ill equiped US troops to actions both near and far in theatres of war that were far from the expected tank battles in Europe. His support for Berlin, his opposition to communism and his support for the UN poverty and health programmes is perhaps better justification for a memorial to this american Lord Palmerston even if it is along a busy and dusty road.
I love Regents Park. It is my favorite London Park. I first lived by the Park and Primrose Hill. I listened to the owls. I talked to the wolves. We moved to a house where we awaken by the nuns singing at dawn. I built a snow man. I got lost in the last winters of London fogs where each bus had a man walking in front.
Football, cricket and the Zoo
Generations have learnt football in the mud of winter and cricket in the heat of early summer on the open spaces in this most glorious of parks. Both real goalposts and jumpers for goal posts covered the fields in an open patch work of frentic activity.
In recent years softball leagues have sprung up spurred on by the transatlantic influence and the reduced attention spans. The continent becomes more influenial with strange people contorting their limbs in slow motion stretching and contracting contrasts with the majesty, beauty and sanctity of the rose gardens.
The Zoo is a safeguard for the wild creatures we share our lives with.