Magnolia Dell Park
Magnolia Dell Park is a park in Bailey's Muckleneuk, Pretoria, South Africa. The park lies in the sharp-angled crook between Queen Wilhelmina Avenue and Justice Mahomed Street, otherwise surrounded by the Walkerspruit. The park is surrounded by high trees, and the aforementioned creek has a dam featuring a statue of Peter Pan in the middle. The Magnolia Flea Market is held on the first Sunday of each month there, and other events there include the Kuns in die Park and the Moonlight Market. The annual magnolia flowers in the park and further down Queen Wilhelmina Avenue are another key attraction. The park has a popular restaurant known as Huckleberry's.[1]
On January 29, 1997, apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Wouter Basson was arrested in the park.[2]
The Gautrain goes past Magnolia Dell Park on the main line along University Road as well as a new realigned line.
References
[edit]- ^ "Parks of Tshwane". City of Tshwane. Archived from the original on 2008-10-14. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ "Basson victim of drug dealer's plot, court told". Daily Dispatch. October 27, 1999. Archived from the original on 2007-05-02. Retrieved 15 November 2019.