Church Walk Park: a Newcastle inner city haven
For decades, as I drove most days along King Street to work in Newcastle city, I'd stop at the lights at Darby Street and admire the wild-looking piece of steep land on the south eastern side of the intersection, wondering who owned it and hoping it would never be torn apart. Although I admired this little piece of land, I never bothered to find out anything about it, and I never tried to walk through it, assuming it was probably a private garden. Recently I discovered that this lovely spot is actually a public park. Its…
