{"id":1021,"date":"2014-09-29T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2014-09-29T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T10:44:43","slug":"fred-wells-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/fred-wells-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Wells Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What a great place Fred Wells gardens is.<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s on the site of a former railway station, but it&#8217;s now a great hidden gem in Battersea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s one of the only (possible the only) parks in Wandsworth where you can light a barbeque*.<\/li>\n<li>It has a free tennis court.<\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s playground with vomit-inducing spinner.<\/li>\n<li>Open grassed area.<\/li>\n<li>Dog friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Great trees for climbing and den making.<\/li>\n<li>Hide and seek all around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1022\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1022\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP_20140921_15_09_33_Pro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1022\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP_20140921_15_09_33_Pro-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Den Making Fred Wells Gardens\" width=\"474\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP_20140921_15_09_33_Pro-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WP_20140921_15_09_33_Pro.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Den Making Fred Wells Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some facts about Fred Wells gardens<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A small strip of land along one side of the park <a title=\"Fred wells bbc news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/london\/7629995.stm\" target=\"_blank\">cost Wandsworth Council \u00a31.6M<\/a> in 2008<\/li>\n<li>Fred Wells was a long serving\u00a0 Labour councillor of Wandsworth. It was <a title=\"Fred Wells history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.batterseasociety.org.uk\/newsletters\/summer06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">opened in 1983<\/a> by Denis Waterman and Henry Cooper (why them is lost to the mysteries of time&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* Barbeque area was given temporary trial status according to the notice in the park. Not sure if it&#8217;s still in force, but the barbeque tree trunk still exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great place Fred Wells gardens is. It&#8217;s on the site of a former railway station, but it&#8217;s now a great hidden gem in Battersea. It&#8217;s one of the only (possible the only) parks in Wandsworth where you can light a barbeque*. It has a free tennis court. Children&#8217;s playground with vomit-inducing spinner. Open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/2014\/09\/fred-wells-gardens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fred Wells Gardens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-locally","tag-fred-wells-gardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wickham.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}