Introduction

Welcome to the internal reserves blog.

As you will have read at the top of the page, this site has been set up to make public various photographic and other records of internal reserve spaces around the world, which I have been documenting for a decade now.
My chief intention in publishing this material is to attract others who might have material on particular internal reserve sites - either archival photographs/ written recollections of the ways reserves have been used, pictures of reserves now gone, or other images connected with internal reserves.
I have tried to define the internal reserve in the header of the blog but to reiterate, its chief defining features are:

(1) no or little street frontage, so the vast majority of the reserve is fenced and contained within a housing block
(2) pedestrian access only - although some spaces which have been pedestrian-only internal reserves for most of their existence have more recently been opened up to vehicle access to allow for rear entry to properties
(3) intended for use by local communities chiefly as passive recreation spaces

If you wish to communicate with me about an internal reserve you know something about, please feel free to email me: nicholsd@unimelb.edu.au

Thank you