I'd wager that a considerable portion of the forum membership do not know the history. Even West Park's most recent history, as a staple part of the asylum seekers diet over the past seven or so years, is likely not something that people are fully aware of the details of.
I guess a lot of people do know
some information regarding the location, sure it's easy enough to schpeel off dates and statistics, and who reads it any how? I see a paragraph opening with
"West Park was built in . . ." and usually switch off. To bring something new historically, no matter how seemingly insignificant, to share some insight in relation to your photographs taken, experiences had, something personal, I really appreciate that. A particularly good example would be all the asylum stuff on:
http://www.mechanised.org.uk/.
Hey, I'm not being an arse btw. It just so happened that your use of the quoted phrase coincided with my 1000th time of reading it and so prompted a response.
Looks like you had a fun visit. Did you say hello to the lovely security guy? LOL! I swear that his job would be so tedious without explorers keeping him on his toes.