Victoria Park is one of London's most impressive parks - 290 acres of green space laid out in the 1840s. It really is very pretty and well worth an amble around.
Along one side runs the Regents Canal
One of the Dogs of Alcibiades, a much copied ancient sculpture of a Molossian Hound.
The Chinese Pagoda built in 2012 for the Olymics in place of the existing one which had become derelict.
A row of lock-keepers cottages and stables by the canal.
The boating lake...
The Royal Inn on the Park
Hackney Jewish Cemetery
Lauriston Road roundabout
The Burdett-Coutts Memorial Drinking Fountain, massively over the top as a water supply, but a beautiful feature
This is all that is left of the Victorian Church of St Augustine's - a marker where its altar stood. Another victim of the Blitz.
The Eastern side of the park is delineated by Cadogan Terrace - a very smart street for an otherwise quite deprived area.
The Park Lodge
Here is a curiosity - one of two stone alcoves moved here from the demolished old London Bridge in 1831
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