The gate in #1 gives access to paths leading up through the woods to the park running along the front of the gardens for each individual house in Victoria Park. I have had to climb over it a couple of times for lost keys and a lost cat when my neighbours in the lower flat were out, you can only access the grounds from the lower floor.
Re post #9, here is a fallen tree in 2007, you can see Laureston Place in the background. This is the only one I have ever known to fall down, and it was after a storm. Sorry to hear that those living there are in the shade but these trees are magnificent and they will be felled over my dead body!
The park with a bit of mowing going on.
The view from our first floor flat with the Western Heights in the background. Sorry about Henrietta the goose, and the scaffolding, but I am scrabbling around a bit for photos.
Victoria Park in Victorian times.