Park
In all my years living in Sheffield, I have rarely visited Norfolk Park - to the south east of the city but I went there again today. Above, I am pretty pleased with that autumnal photograph of the gatehouse at the Granville Road entrance. It is a sprawling park of some seventy acres with woodland and open spaces. It once belonged to the Dukes of Norfolk and was part of extensive hunting grounds. Eventually, in 1910, the entire area was given to the people of Sheffield by the then Duke of Norfolk though one should not necessarily think of this as an act of generous munificence. It was more complicated than that. Below, the arched stone doorway remains but the building it once accessed is gone. It was a tearoom and pavilion. The inscription above the doorway commemorates the official transfer of the parkland into public ownership. On a park noticeboard, someone had affixed this sticker. It refers to a subject that is close to my heart. Badgers have been here on the is...