Three meadows of Croydon
There are three meadows in the Woodside, South Norwood and Selhurst area, approximately north east of Croydon town centre. Two of them only became public parks in the 1990s, meaning they don't appear in the book Croydon's Parks: An Illustrated History , which was published in 1988. Brickfields Meadow Brickfields Meadow lake, Jan 2021 The peace and stillness of the grassy meadow, small woodland and deep lake at Brickfields are quite a contrast to the site's industrial past. As the name suggests, it was previously a brickworks. The first brickworks on the site started in 1810, where Thomas Becket School now stands, but closed in 1856. Horris Parks opened a brickworks on what is now the meadow in the 1880s and it was later bought by Edward Handley, becoming Handleys Brickworks. The brickworks eventually closed in 1974. Housing was built on part of the site while the rest was opened as public green space. Adult & juvenile moorhens, Brickfields, Oct 2020 Interestingly, ...