Palfrey Park

It's not very often that I go into central Walsall but it has some beautiful parks, the ITV program Love Your Garden briefly featured Palfrey park, and it got me thinking about the few times I've been down there.

As a park it has a lot of charm, what with it's popular public art (popular public art, a very rare thing indeed), a marvelous Victorian bandstand, a modern outdoor fitness area, football pitches, cricket pitches, a bowling green, and a nature conservation area with a pond it really is a little haven right in the middle of a busy and otherwise overcrowded area. 

Map courtesy of Walsall Council website
 http://cms.walsall.gov.uk/index/palfrey_park.htm

The Palfrey Horse I didn't know the name Palfrey came from the Latin paraveredus meaning well bred light horse as Palfrey was famous for horses way back when...

See, I'm not making this stuff up.

OK, this isn't Palfrey but it's a cracking looking oss.