Ruskin Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-06

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Ruskin Park is in Denmark Hill in Camberwell in the London Borough of Lambeth, London, England, taking up much of its south-west quarter starting at its station. It was opened on 2 February 1907 with an area of 24 acres (10 ha) then, in 1910, 12 acres (5 ha) was added on its south-west side. These two parts are undivided. It is named after John Ruskin (1819–1900), a poet, writer and a major champion of diverse green spaces as well as of the Arts and Crafts movement, who lived near the park. He gives his name equally to a college, museum and square.In 2016, Lambeth council divested the park to a private tenant, and since then the park has been managed by Friends of Ruskin Park, a local Christian group aligned with Quakers and formed in 1996. In 2016 Friends of Ruskin Park achieved charity status of the type CIO or charitable incorporated organisation, a new type of legal entity which allows it to conduct business in its own name. In as much, Ruskin Park and its management is not bound by the social policies of Lambeth but still by Lambeth Parks and Open Spaces bylaws.
During World War I, recruits of the 21st Battalion, London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles) based at nearby Flodden Road in Camberwell, trained in the park.In 1967, photographer Colin Prime took Pink Floyd for their first official photoshoot. It took place in Ruskin Park and came about after Prime had met the band as an up-and-coming new group playing the London clubs.
The photos see the band— Nick Mason, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright—larking about in jovial spirits in the park, sitting on benches posing, or in or near the Ruskin Park Portico, a remaining part of the 18th century villas that once encircled Denmark Hill.