Intersections past and present

I started mapping the local park called "Belle Vue". This is a Victorian park, a little faded but still beautiful, it was created by the famous victorian park designer Thomas Mawson. It's our local park, my mother played here as a little girl and its where my kids play now. This place can seem no more than a pastel dream and on this stage many bitter sweet minor dramas are played out. There are many characters -‘Parky' is the park warden. To kids of a previous age they were a force to be reckoned with. Parky now works part time, co-aided by CCTV cameras. The present incumbent, told me he has to tread a wary path with both kids and adults, who can blame him, he values his personal safety. Times change we change. This map will be a intersection of all that, a crossing of events past and present, some personal others observed or historical. I like having a chat to some of the older park user's, they may have been coming to the park for many years and notice change. They tut this and that and hark back to a time when the bylaws of the park were adhered to. Then, there was no vandalism or rubbish and dogs were kept on a lead and people it seemed were nicer to each other. I don't know how true all that is, but it interests me and I want to draw that out ideas of social change played out against the backdrop of the park.