A plan of Agnes Riley Gardens in Poynders Road, Clapham Park and dated 21st January 1937. Part of the land was given to the LCC as a park pre-WWII by F.George Riley. When he died in 1942 the residue of the site was transfered into public ownership and occupied by a War Department Ballon Barage, with a further area given over for allotments. The cost to layout the park in 1952 was estimated to be \u00a314,000, including the demolition of the house and conservatory, which had served as a War Department restaurant, closing in 1953.
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A plan of Agnes Riley Gardens in Poynders Road, Clapham Park and dated 21st January 1937. Part of the land was given to the LCC as a park pre-WWII by F.George Riley. When he died in 1942 the residue of the site was transfered into public ownership and occupied by a War Department Ballon Barage, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,106,31,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-clapham-park","category-open-spaces","category-print"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n