Thursday, December 25, 2014

Land battles: Hardy-Gallagher Park




 
Just south of the Brunswick border is a small tract of bushland, a bocce court, a railway station with no train line, a children’s playground. This enchanted pocket of parkland is the meeting place of a number of intertwining stories. It used to be part of the Inner Circle line. The station building is now a Neighbourhood House. The bocce court is a memorial to an adventurous Italian immigrant, but the park itself owes its existence to a struggle and confrontation between the community and short sighted interests.