Reserve in block bounded by Coolamon, Adelaide, Hamel and Kamarooka Streets, Albion, Vic

Victoria and I also recently visited the two reserves in the Melbourne suburb of Albion which are part of an estate reputedly created by HV Mackay, the proprietor of the Sunshine Harvester Works in western Melbourne. I have visited these before (and indeed Robert Freestone and I wrote about one of them in our most popular internal reserves paper, 'Community valuations of historic pocket parks: A Melbourne study' published in Leisure Studies 6:2 in 2003; we compared survey material of local residents in 1979 and twenty something years later). 

You can view this one here.

This is the lane going in, astride an apartment block car park:

 A lot of the locals use this for vehicle access, obviously.

As you can see, one resident has extended a backyard into the space, and also grown some rather delectable looking capsicums (aka peppers) and eggplants (aka aubergines) outside her or his back fence. 

One house, with almost no extant back fence, seems to be mainly a residents for multiple cats.

Victoria was particularly engaged by the drainage on this site and I must say the little pedestrian bridges are quaint.

All in all, a well-used reserve, hardly used at all for recreation but clearly valued.