News on Park food – Pear Tree Park Bistro.

Following the closure of the old golf club cafe last December, news now comes that a new food outlet is planning to open this summer in the same premises – the Pear Tree Park Bistro offering modern European cuisine. It is hoped it will have longer opening hours than the original cafe (which closed by 3-4 pm), and also retaining breakfasts on the menu. There are plans to expand the seating area for diners and to open a community room at the back of the building.  Indeed, the ethos of this bistro will be the community and engagement with it.

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Brent-Imperial Run-off Project.

A major one-year scientific project is starting which will involve sampling the waters of the river Brent and some of its tributaries. This is a collaboration between the Environmental Research group at Imperial College, CURB (Clean Up River Brent) and around 30 teams of volunteers. The project aims to analyse rain-water run-off immediately before and after “heavy-rain” to establish the levels of pollutants along the Brent corridor.

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Guerrilla gardens close to Perivale Park

Along  Hicks Avenue,  the houses of which back up to the park,  we spotted this wonderfully cheerful little Guerrilla Garden.  Its been there for a while, but is looking particularly cheerful at the moment when Perivale  Park itself is starting to wind down for autumn. It is wonderfully well tended, and whoever looks after it, we want you to know it is appreciated.

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New sandpits and benches.

In these posts in the past I have often referred to the two general areas of the Perivale park sports fields and the Longfield meadows and ponds on the other side of the railway embankment as the “Greater Perivale park“. Now sandwiched nicely between these two is Pear Tree park, which along its northern and western edge is entirely contiguous with Perivale park itself, the eastern edge being bounded by the railway line and the southern edge by the river Brent. So when something new or interesting is found in these general areas, I might find myself describing it as the greater park and its distinct three sections, each with their own character. So today the photos were taken in the greater park, and particularly in the Pear Tree section and the Perivale park pond area.

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A summer’s day (spiral) walk around Northala Fields

Just to the west of  Perivale Park are the Northala fields, a prominent feature of which are the four large mounds. The largest and tallest of these has a spiral (right handed!) path to the top, which we walked today. The flowers on either side of the path were stunning – as was the scent from the thistles, attracting quite a few butterflies as well.

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July 7th: A ‘power hour’ of litter picking in your local green space.

The Conservation Volunteers have recently suggested that a “power hour” Sunday 7th July be spent litter picking. So two of the  Friends of  Perivale Park got out their “power picker”, and visited the site where TCV recently spent about two hours replanting the edge of Coston’s brook. As it happens, not too much litter there!

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Perivale Park Academy.

These notices have appeared around the park recently!

Notice the age group, 2-7. So if you have children/grandchildren that age, consider enrolling them! More details will no doubt follow.

An Ealing Greenspace at the start of its new life as a Park.

Last Friday was the last day of the Perivale Park golf course being open – and now it awaits its new life as an Ealing park.  We strolled around the park and here are a few photos to give a flavour of what it looks like now. The next thing to happen will be the installation of four benches and four litter bins – the locations of which are already being discussed. As things  happen,  I hope to record them here.

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The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) in Perivale Park.

The TCV group organises events around the country and today they came to Perivale Park on a corporate volunteering day with a group of about twenty very enthusiastic people from PwC – and one volunteer dog accompanying  Ben!.  An area of ground on the banks of Costons Brook near to its exit from the culvert in the park had recently been cleared by GEL using an impressive robotic cutting system and it was now ready for replanting.

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