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sadly needed in that part of London before 

 many years are passed, and it is certain that 

 West London cannot go on burying its dead 

 much longer at Kensal Green. But it is to be 

 feared that the usual short-sighted policy will 

 prevail with regard to these spaces, and a good 

 deal of the space known a's Old Oak Common 

 has already been enclosed with barbed-wire 

 fences, and it is now said that the commoners' 

 rights in this space have been extinguished. 



Beyond these spaces are Acton and Harlesden 

 — a district where town and country mix. 



From Wormwood Scrubs to Eegent's Park 

 it is three miles as the crow flies — three miles of 

 houses inhabited by a working-class population, 

 with no green spot except the Paddington 

 Recreation Ground, which is small (25 acres), 

 and of little or no use to the thousands of poor 

 children in this vast parish, being too far from 

 their homes. 



Crossing the line dividing the West from the 

 North-west district near Kensal Green, we find 

 the following four not large open spaces in 

 Kilburn — Kensal Else, Brondesbury Park (pri- 

 vate), Paddington Cemetery, and Kilburn or 

 Queen's Park (30 acres). 



