“I’d have liked to go for a walk in the park…but I’d no-one to go with…”

Could this be you, or someone you know ? It’s what someone elderly said to us last summer.

Look out for details of our free weekly walks, due to start this spring and carry on through the summer. We’ll be a friendly group on a short, … read more

We have just began organising the 2012 Friends of Mile End Park  (aka. Park Life). Make sure you pencil Sunday the 8th July in your diaries. I’ve already had friends ask “When’s the dog show?”. So now you know.

I was doing the [quarterly] ironing the other day, with 4MUSIC on in the background when lo and behold I saw Mile End Park in a video from 19 year old Conor Maynard. Conor is being touted as “Britain’s answer to Justin Beiber”. It got me thinking, what other videos have been shot in the park?

I regularly cycle use the towpath that forms the western border of Mile End Park either for a casual weekend stroll to the Pavillion Cafe in Vicky Park or on those days when I cycle to work. And I gave a Boris bike a test drive along it the other day.

Rarely does a trip go by without some kind … read more